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The Moon on Friday, January 6, 1989: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on January 6, 1989Waning Crescent

Friday 6 January 1989377,705 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 6, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.3% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
377,705 km234,695 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 1989 is on Friday, December 23, 1988 at 05:29 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 7, 1989 at 19:22 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 31, 198804:57
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 7, 198919:22

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Friday, January 6, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1988 to the new moon of January 7, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.