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The Moon on Monday, December 18, 2000: Last Quarter, 45% lit

Waning · 45.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 02°

Last Quarter at

00:41UTC

Moon phase on December 18, 2000Last Quarter

Monday 18 December 2000378,486 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 18, 2000, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 45.0% of its visible face lit, 22.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

45.0%Illumination at noon UTC
22.5 dMoon age
378,486 km235,180 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (3°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 2000 is on Monday, December 11, 2000 at 09:03 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, December 11, 200009:03
Last Quarter (this day)Monday, December 18, 200000:41
New Moon (after)Monday, December 25, 200017:22

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Monday, December 18, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 2000 to the new moon of December 25, 2000, a cycle of 29.76 days.