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The Moon on Wednesday, August 30, 1989: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 28°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on August 30, 1989Waning Crescent

Wednesday 30 August 1989396,904 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 30, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
396,904 km246,625 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (29°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 1989 is on Thursday, August 17, 1989 at 03:07 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 31, 1989 at 05:45 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Wednesday, August 30, 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.