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The Moon on Tuesday, September 27, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 28°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on September 27, 1988Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 27 September 1988362,820 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 27, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.6% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.6%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
362,820 km225,446 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (28°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1988 is on Sunday, September 25, 1988 at 19:07 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 10, 1988 at 21:49 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 25, 198819:07
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, October 2, 198816:59

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Tuesday, September 27, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 11, 1988 to the new moon of October 10, 1988, a cycle of 29.71 days.