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The Moon on Saturday, April 22, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 15°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on April 22, 2000Waning Gibbous

Saturday 22 April 2000402,330 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 22, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.5% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
402,330 km249,996 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 2000 is on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 17:42 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 04:12 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, April 18, 200017:42
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, April 26, 200019:30

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Saturday, April 22, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 4, 2000 to the new moon of May 4, 2000, a cycle of 29.42 days.