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The Moon on Sunday, April 23, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on April 23, 1989Waning Gibbous

Sunday 23 April 1989399,262 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 23, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.7% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
399,262 km248,090 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (30°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 23, 1989 is on Friday, April 21, 1989 at 03:14 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 5, 1989 at 11:46 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, April 21, 198903:14
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 28, 198920:46

The Moon around April 23

More about this date

Sunday, April 23, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 6, 1989 to the new moon of May 5, 1989, a cycle of 29.34 days.