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The Moon on Sunday, January 22, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 100% lit

Waning · 99.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on January 22, 1989Waning Gibbous

Sunday 22 January 1989396,521 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 22, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.6% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.6%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
396,521 km246,386 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1989 is on Saturday, January 21, 1989 at 21:34 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 7, 1989 at 19:22 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 21, 198921:34
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 30, 198902:02

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Sunday, January 22, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 7, 1989 to the new moon of February 6, 1989, a cycle of 29.51 days.