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The Moon on Wednesday, December 7, 1988: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on December 7, 1988Waning Crescent

Wednesday 7 December 1988390,467 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 7, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
390,467 km242,625 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 7, 1988 is on Wednesday, November 23, 1988 at 15:53 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 1988 at 05:36 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 1, 198806:50
New Moon (after)Friday, December 9, 198805:36

The Moon around December 7

More about this date

Wednesday, December 7, 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.