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The Moon on Tuesday, October 24, 1989: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.2% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on October 24, 1989Waning Crescent

Tuesday 24 October 1989399,276 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 24, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.2% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.2%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
399,276 km248,098 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (5°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 24, 1989 is on Saturday, October 14, 1989 at 20:32 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 29, 1989 at 15:27 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 21, 198913:19
New Moon (after)Sunday, October 29, 198915:27

The Moon around October 24

More about this date

Tuesday, October 24, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 29, 1989 to the new moon of October 29, 1989, a cycle of 29.74 days.