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The Moon on Saturday, October 29, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 78% lit

Waning · 77.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

18.6days

Moon phase on October 29, 1988Waning Gibbous

Saturday 29 October 1988384,963 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, October 29, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.8% of its visible face lit, 18.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.6 dMoon age
384,963 km239,205 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 29, 1988 is on Tuesday, October 25, 1988 at 04:36 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 9, 1988 at 14:20 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, October 25, 198804:36
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 1, 198810:12

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Saturday, October 29, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 10, 1988 to the new moon of November 9, 1988, a cycle of 29.69 days.