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The Moon on Tuesday, December 26, 1989: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 15°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on December 26, 1989Waning Crescent

Tuesday 26 December 1989398,786 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 26, 1989, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.8% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
398,786 km247,794 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1989 is on Tuesday, December 12, 1989 at 16:30 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 1989 at 03:20 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Tuesday, December 26, 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.