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The Moon on Wednesday, December 27, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 2.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 25°

Moon age

1.8days

Moon phase on December 27, 2000Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 27 December 2000405,682 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 27, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 2.8% of its visible face lit, 1.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

2.8%Illumination at noon UTC
1.8 dMoon age
405,682 km252,079 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (25°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 2000 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 2 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Wednesday, December 27, 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.