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The Moon on Tuesday, December 26, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 13°

Moon age

0.8days

Moon phase on December 26, 2000Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 26 December 2000404,505 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 26, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.8 dMoon age
404,505 km251,348 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (14°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 2000 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, December 25, 200017:22
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 2, 200122:32

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Tuesday, December 26, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 25, 2000 to the new moon of January 24, 2001, a cycle of 29.82 days.