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The Moon on Wednesday, December 13, 1989: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

15.1days

Moon phase on December 13, 1989Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 13 December 1989366,572 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 13, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.1 dMoon age
366,572 km227,777 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1989 is on Tuesday, December 12, 1989 at 16:30 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 1989 at 03:20 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 12, 198916:30
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, December 19, 198923:55

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Wednesday, December 13, 1989 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 28, 1989 to the new moon of December 28, 1989, a cycle of 29.74 days.