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The Moon on Thursday, August 17, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 20°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on August 17, 2000Waning Gibbous

Thursday 17 August 2000395,504 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 17, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.9% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
395,504 km245,754 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (21°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 17, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around August 17

More about this date

Thursday, August 17, 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.