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The Moon on Sunday, September 30, 1979: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on September 30, 1979Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 30 September 1979371,521 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 30, 1979, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.6% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
371,521 km230,852 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1979 is on Friday, October 5, 1979 at 19:35 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 21, 1979 at 09:47 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, September 29, 197904:20
Full Moon (after)Friday, October 5, 197919:35

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Sunday, September 30, 1979 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 21, 1979 to the new moon of October 21, 1979, a cycle of 29.69 days.