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The Moon on Tuesday, October 31, 1989: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 3.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

1.9days

Moon phase on October 31, 1989Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 31 October 1989404,486 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 31, 1989, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.3% of its visible face lit, 1.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.3%Illumination at noon UTC
1.9 dMoon age
404,486 km251,336 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 31, 1989 is on Monday, November 13, 1989 at 05:52 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 29, 1989 at 15:27 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 29, 198915:27
First Quarter (after)Monday, November 6, 198914:11

The Moon around October 31

More about this date

Tuesday, October 31, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 29, 1989 to the new moon of November 28, 1989, a cycle of 29.76 days.