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The Moon on Saturday, December 23, 2000: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on December 23, 2000Waning Crescent

Saturday 23 December 2000397,843 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 23, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.7% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
397,843 km247,208 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 2000 is on Monday, December 11, 2000 at 09:03 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 18, 200000:41
New Moon (after)Monday, December 25, 200017:22

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Saturday, December 23, 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.