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The Moon on Tuesday, May 23, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 92% lit

Waning · 92.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 04°

Moon age

18.0days

Moon phase on May 23, 1989Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 23 May 1989388,896 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 23, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.3% of its visible face lit, 18.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.3%Illumination at noon UTC
18.0 dMoon age
388,896 km241,649 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (4°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 23, 1989 is on Saturday, May 20, 1989 at 18:16 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 3, 1989 at 19:53 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, May 20, 198918:16
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 28, 198904:01

The Moon around May 23

More about this date

Tuesday, May 23, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 5, 1989 to the new moon of June 3, 1989, a cycle of 29.34 days.