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The Moon on Wednesday, August 16, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 08°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 16, 2000Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 16 August 2000398,454 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 16, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.3% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
398,454 km247,588 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (8°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 15, 200005:13
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, August 22, 200018:51

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Wednesday, August 16, 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.