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The Moon on Friday, January 18, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 05°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on January 18, 1980Waxing Crescent

Friday 18 January 1980365,079 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 18, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
365,079 km226,849 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (6°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1980 is on Friday, February 1, 1980 at 02:21 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, January 17, 198021:20
First Quarter (after)Thursday, January 24, 198013:58

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Friday, January 18, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 17, 1980 to the new moon of February 16, 1980, a cycle of 29.48 days.