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The Moon on Saturday, December 30, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 19% lit

Waxing · 19.1% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 00°

Moon age

4.8days

Moon phase on December 30, 2000Waxing Crescent

Saturday 30 December 2000404,582 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 30, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 19.1% of its visible face lit, 4.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

19.1%Illumination at noon UTC
4.8 dMoon age
404,582 km251,395 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (1°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2000 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 5 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Saturday, December 30, 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.