Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, August 18, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on August 18, 2000Waning Gibbous

Friday 18 August 2000392,197 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 18, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.6% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.6%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
392,197 km243,700 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Friday, August 18, 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.