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The Moon on Sunday, August 27, 2000: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on August 27, 2000Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 August 2000361,902 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 27, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.4% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
361,902 km224,876 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2000 is on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 05:13 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Sunday, August 27, 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.