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The Moon on Friday, January 11, 1980: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

23.1days

Moon phase on January 11, 1980Waning Crescent

Friday 11 January 1980398,417 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 11, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.5% of its visible face lit, 23.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.1 dMoon age
398,417 km247,565 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 11, 1980 is on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at 09:02 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 10, 198011:50
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 17, 198021:20

The Moon around January 11

More about this date

Friday, January 11, 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.