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The Moon on Monday, August 7, 2000: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

First Quarter at

01:02UTC

Moon phase on August 7, 2000First Quarter

Monday 7 August 2000395,673 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 7, 2000, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.7% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
395,673 km245,860 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 7, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 31, 2000 at 02:25 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, July 31, 200002:25
First Quarter (this day)Monday, August 7, 200001:02
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 15, 200005:13

The Moon around August 7

More about this date

Monday, August 7, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 31, 2000 to the new moon of August 29, 2000, a cycle of 29.33 days.