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The Moon on Sunday, October 7, 1979: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 06°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on October 7, 1979Waning Gibbous

Sunday 7 October 1979366,407 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 7, 1979, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.8% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
366,407 km227,675 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (7°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 7, 1979 is on Friday, October 5, 1979 at 19:35 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 21, 1979 at 02:23 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, October 5, 197919:35
Last Quarter (after)Friday, October 12, 197921:24

The Moon around October 7

More about this date

Sunday, October 7, 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.