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The Moon on Sunday, November 27, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 83.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

17.9days

Moon phase on November 27, 1988Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 November 1988390,809 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 27, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 83.6% of its visible face lit, 17.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

83.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.9 dMoon age
390,809 km242,837 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 27, 1988 is on Wednesday, November 23, 1988 at 15:53 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 1988 at 05:36 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, November 23, 198815:53
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 1, 198806:50

The Moon around November 27

More about this date

Sunday, November 27, 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.