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The Moon on Sunday, July 30, 1989: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on July 30, 1989Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 July 1989381,909 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 30, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
381,909 km237,307 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 30, 1989 is on Tuesday, July 18, 1989 at 17:42 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 1, 1989 at 16:06 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, July 25, 198913:31
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 1, 198916:06

The Moon around July 30

More about this date

Sunday, July 30, 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.