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The Moon on Tuesday, February 9, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 65% lit

Waning · 64.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

21.3days

Moon phase on February 9, 1988Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 9 February 1988392,681 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, February 9, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.9% of its visible face lit, 21.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.3 dMoon age
392,681 km244,001 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 9, 1988 is on Tuesday, February 2, 1988 at 20:52 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, February 17, 1988 at 15:54 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, February 2, 198820:52
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, February 10, 198823:01

The Moon around February 9

More about this date

Tuesday, February 9, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 19, 1988 to the new moon of February 17, 1988, a cycle of 29.44 days.