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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 29°

Moon age

20.4days

Moon phase on August 20, 2000Waning Gibbous

Sunday 20 August 2000384,624 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.9% of its visible face lit, 20.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.9%Illumination at noon UTC
20.4 dMoon age
384,624 km238,994 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 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.