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The Moon on Tuesday, January 8, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 25°

Moon age

20.1days

Moon phase on January 8, 1980Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 8 January 1980404,692 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 8, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.5% of its visible face lit, 20.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.1 dMoon age
404,692 km251,464 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (26°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1980 is on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at 09:02 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Tuesday, January 8, 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.