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The Moon on Sunday, April 23, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 79% lit

Waning · 79.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 27°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on April 23, 2000Waning Gibbous

Sunday 23 April 2000403,956 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 23, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 79.4% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

79.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
403,956 km251,006 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (28°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 23, 2000 is on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 17:42 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 04:12 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around April 23

More about this date

Sunday, April 23, 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.