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The Moon on Tuesday, August 22, 2000: Last Quarter, 53% lit

Waning · 53.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 26°

Last Quarter at

18:51UTC

Moon phase on August 22, 2000Last Quarter

Tuesday 22 August 2000376,178 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 22, 2000, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.3% of its visible face lit, 22.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.3%Illumination at noon UTC
22.4 dMoon age
376,178 km233,746 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (26°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 15, 200005:13
Last Quarter (this day)Tuesday, August 22, 200018:51
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 29, 200010:19

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Tuesday, August 22, 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.