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The Moon on Saturday, August 26, 2000: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 2000Waning Crescent

Saturday 26 August 2000362,764 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 26, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.0% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.0%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
362,764 km225,411 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 22, 200018:51
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 29, 200010:19

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Saturday, August 26, 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.