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The Moon on Sunday, October 29, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 5.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

2.2days

Moon phase on October 29, 2000Waxing Crescent

Sunday 29 October 2000393,125 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 29, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.1% of its visible face lit, 2.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.1%Illumination at noon UTC
2.2 dMoon age
393,125 km244,276 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (2°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 29, 2000 is on Saturday, November 11, 2000 at 21:15 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 27, 2000 at 07:58 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, October 27, 200007:58
First Quarter (after)Saturday, November 4, 200007:27

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Sunday, October 29, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 27, 2000 to the new moon of November 25, 2000, a cycle of 29.63 days.