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The Moon on Wednesday, August 30, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 21°

Moon age

1.1days

Moon phase on August 30, 2000Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 30 August 2000368,424 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 30, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.7% of its visible face lit, 1.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.7%Illumination at noon UTC
1.1 dMoon age
368,424 km228,928 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (22°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2000 is on Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 19:37 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at 10:19 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, August 29, 200010:19
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, September 5, 200016:28

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Wednesday, August 30, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 29, 2000 to the new moon of September 27, 2000, a cycle of 29.40 days.