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The Moon on Sunday, May 28, 2000: Waning Crescent, 30% lit

Waning · 30.2% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Moon age

24.3days

Moon phase on May 28, 2000Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 May 2000384,501 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 28, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 30.2% of its visible face lit, 24.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

30.2%Illumination at noon UTC
24.3 dMoon age
384,501 km238,918 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 28, 2000 is on Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 07:35 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 2, 2000 at 12:14 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, May 26, 200011:55
New Moon (after)Friday, June 2, 200012:14

The Moon around May 28

More about this date

Sunday, May 28, 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.