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The Moon on Sunday, December 24, 2000: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 19°

Moon age

28.5days

Moon phase on December 24, 2000Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 December 2000400,519 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 24, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 28.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
28.5 dMoon age
400,519 km248,871 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 2000 is on Monday, December 11, 2000 at 09:03 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Sunday, December 24, 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.