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The Moon on Sunday, July 2, 1989: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 01°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on July 2, 1989Waning Crescent

Sunday 2 July 1989376,266 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 2, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
376,266 km233,801 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 2, 1989 is on Monday, June 19, 1989 at 06:57 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 3, 1989 at 04:59 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, June 26, 198909:09
New Moon (after)Monday, July 3, 198904:59

The Moon around July 2

More about this date

Sunday, July 2, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 3, 1989 to the new moon of July 3, 1989, a cycle of 29.38 days.