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The Moon on Friday, December 22, 1989: Waning Crescent, 27% lit

Waning · 27.3% lit · ♎︎ Libra 27°

Moon age

24.1days

Moon phase on December 22, 1989Waning Crescent

Friday 22 December 1989405,152 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 22, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 27.3% of its visible face lit, 24.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

27.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.1 dMoon age
405,152 km251,750 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1989 is on Tuesday, December 12, 1989 at 16:30 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 1989 at 03:20 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 19, 198923:55
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 28, 198903:20

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Friday, December 22, 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.