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The Moon on Tuesday, November 8, 1988: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on November 8, 1988Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 November 1988397,805 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, November 8, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
397,805 km247,185 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 8, 1988 is on Tuesday, October 25, 1988 at 04:36 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 9, 1988 at 14:20 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, November 1, 198810:12
New Moon (after)Wednesday, November 9, 198814:20

The Moon around November 8

More about this date

Tuesday, November 8, 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.