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The Moon on Sunday, October 30, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 15°

Moon age

19.6days

Moon phase on October 30, 1988Waning Gibbous

Sunday 30 October 1988390,667 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 30, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.7% of its visible face lit, 19.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.6 dMoon age
390,667 km242,749 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (15°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 30, 1988 is on Tuesday, October 25, 1988 at 04:36 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 9, 1988 at 14:20 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around October 30

More about this date

Sunday, October 30, 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.