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The Moon on Sunday, March 26, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on March 26, 1989Waning Gibbous

Sunday 26 March 1989401,457 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 26, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.5% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.5%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
401,457 km249,454 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1989 is on Wednesday, March 22, 1989 at 09:58 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 6, 1989 at 03:33 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, March 22, 198909:58
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 30, 198910:22

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Sunday, March 26, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 1989 to the new moon of April 6, 1989, a cycle of 29.38 days.