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The Moon on Friday, January 4, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on January 4, 1980Waning Gibbous

Friday 4 January 1980397,348 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 4, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.5% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
397,348 km246,900 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 1980 is on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at 09:02 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 13 days later.

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

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Friday, January 4, 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.