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The Moon on Tuesday, May 30, 1989: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 24.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on May 30, 1989Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 May 1989366,109 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 30, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 24.5% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

24.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
366,109 km227,490 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (10°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 30, 1989 is on Saturday, May 20, 1989 at 18:16 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 3, 1989 at 19:53 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, May 28, 198904:01
New Moon (after)Saturday, June 3, 198919:53

The Moon around May 30

More about this date

Tuesday, May 30, 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.