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The Moon on Tuesday, August 29, 1989: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.0% lit · ♌︎ Leo 16°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on August 29, 1989Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 August 1989393,743 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 29, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
393,743 km244,660 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (16°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1989 is on Thursday, August 17, 1989 at 03:07 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 31, 1989 at 05:45 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 23, 198918:40
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 31, 198905:45

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Tuesday, August 29, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 1989 to the new moon of August 31, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.