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The Moon on Friday, December 29, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 12.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 18°

Moon age

3.8days

Moon phase on December 29, 2000Waxing Crescent

Friday 29 December 2000405,849 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 29, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.3% of its visible face lit, 3.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.3%Illumination at noon UTC
3.8 dMoon age
405,849 km252,183 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (19°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2000 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Friday, December 29, 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.