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The Moon on Wednesday, July 19, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 06°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on July 19, 1989Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 19 July 1989374,675 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 19, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
374,675 km232,812 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (7°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 19, 1989 is on Tuesday, July 18, 1989 at 17:42 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 1, 1989 at 16:06 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, July 18, 198917:42
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, July 25, 198913:31

The Moon around July 19

More about this date

Wednesday, July 19, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 3, 1989 to the new moon of August 1, 1989, a cycle of 29.46 days.