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The Moon on Friday, November 18, 1988: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 17°

Moon age

8.9days

Moon phase on November 18, 1988Waxing Gibbous

Friday 18 November 1988368,243 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, November 18, 1988, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.0% of its visible face lit, 8.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.9 dMoon age
368,243 km228,815 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (17°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 18, 1988 is on Wednesday, November 23, 1988 at 15:53 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 9, 1988 at 14:20 UTC, 9 days earlier.

The Moon around November 18

More about this date

Friday, November 18, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 9, 1988 to the new moon of December 9, 1988, a cycle of 29.64 days.