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The Moon on Thursday, January 3, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

15.1days

Moon phase on January 3, 1980Waning Gibbous

Thursday 3 January 1980393,894 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 3, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.6% of its visible face lit, 15.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.6%Illumination at noon UTC
15.1 dMoon age
393,894 km244,754 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 1980 is on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at 09:02 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 2, 198009:02
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 10, 198011:50

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Thursday, January 3, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 19, 1979 to the new moon of January 17, 1980, a cycle of 29.54 days.