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The Moon on Sunday, October 29, 1989: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

New Moon at

15:27UTC

Moon phase on October 29, 1989New Moon

Sunday 29 October 1989406,521 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 29, 1989, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.6 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.6 dMoon age
406,521 km252,600 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 21, 198913:19
New Moon (this day)Sunday, October 29, 198915:27
First Quarter (after)Monday, November 6, 198914:11

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Sunday, October 29, 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.