Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, May 21, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 91% lit

Waning · 90.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 05°

Moon age

17.3days

Moon phase on May 21, 2000Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 May 2000405,211 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 21, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 90.9% of its visible face lit, 17.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

90.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.3 dMoon age
405,211 km251,786 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 21, 2000 is on Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 07:35 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 2, 2000 at 12:14 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 18, 200007:35
Last Quarter (after)Friday, May 26, 200011:55

The Moon around May 21

More about this date

Sunday, May 21, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 4, 2000 to the new moon of June 2, 2000, a cycle of 29.33 days.