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The Moon on Saturday, December 23, 1989: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

25.1days

Moon phase on December 23, 1989Waning Crescent

Saturday 23 December 1989404,941 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 23, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.4% of its visible face lit, 25.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.4%Illumination at noon UTC
25.1 dMoon age
404,941 km251,618 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1989 is on Tuesday, December 12, 1989 at 16:30 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 1989 at 03:20 UTC, 5 days later.

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

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Saturday, December 23, 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.