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The Moon on Tuesday, May 23, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 77% lit

Waning · 77.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

19.3days

Moon phase on May 23, 2000Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 23 May 2000404,517 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 23, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.4% of its visible face lit, 19.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.4%Illumination at noon UTC
19.3 dMoon age
404,517 km251,355 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (30°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 23, 2000 is on Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 07:35 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 2, 2000 at 12:14 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around May 23

More about this date

Tuesday, May 23, 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.