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The Moon on Sunday, November 4, 1979: Full Moon, 100% lit

Waning · 99.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 14°

Full Moon at

05:47UTC

Moon phase on November 4, 1979Full Moon

Sunday 4 November 1979368,952 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 4, 1979, the Moon was a Full Moon: 99.7% of its visible face lit, 14.4 days after the new moon and at its fullest. The exact Full Moon happened at .

99.7%Illumination at noon UTC
14.4 dMoon age
368,952 km229,256 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
FullWhole disc lit

Full moon

This is the Beaver Moon (also called the Hunter's Moon), 368,047 km from Earth.

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 4, 1979 is on Sunday, November 4, 1979 at 05:47 UTC, the same day, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 21, 1979 at 02:23 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, October 28, 197913:06
Full Moon (this day)Sunday, November 4, 197905:47
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, November 11, 197916:24

The Moon around November 4

More about this date

Sunday, November 4, 1979 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 21, 1979 to the new moon of November 19, 1979, a cycle of 29.65 days.