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The Moon on Sunday, January 13, 1980: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

25.1days

Moon phase on January 13, 1980Waning Crescent

Sunday 13 January 1980388,817 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 13, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.1% of its visible face lit, 25.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.1%Illumination at noon UTC
25.1 dMoon age
388,817 km241,599 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 13, 1980 is on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at 09:02 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 13

More about this date

Sunday, January 13, 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.