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The Moon on Tuesday, August 8, 2000: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 64.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on August 8, 2000Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 8 August 2000399,744 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 8, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.3% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
399,744 km248,389 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 7, 200001:02
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 15, 200005:13

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Tuesday, August 8, 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.