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The Moon on Thursday, April 27, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 65% lit

Waning · 64.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 20°

Moon age

21.4days

Moon phase on April 27, 1989Waning Gibbous

Thursday 27 April 1989384,088 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 27, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.6% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.6%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
384,088 km238,661 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (20°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 27, 1989 is on Friday, April 21, 1989 at 03:14 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 5, 1989 at 11:46 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around April 27

More about this date

Thursday, April 27, 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.