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The Moon on Sunday, December 24, 1989: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

26.1days

Moon phase on December 24, 1989Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 December 1989403,675 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 24, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.5% of its visible face lit, 26.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.1 dMoon age
403,675 km250,832 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1989 is on Tuesday, December 12, 1989 at 16:30 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 1989 at 03:20 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Sunday, December 24, 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.