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The Moon on Sunday, January 29, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 56% lit

Waning · 55.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

21.7days

Moon phase on January 29, 1989Waning Gibbous

Sunday 29 January 1989401,359 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 29, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 55.8% of its visible face lit, 21.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

55.8%Illumination at noon UTC
21.7 dMoon age
401,359 km249,393 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 29, 1989 is on Saturday, January 21, 1989 at 21:34 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, February 6, 1989 at 07:37 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around January 29

More about this date

Sunday, January 29, 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.