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The Moon on Sunday, January 27, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 79.7% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 13°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on January 27, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 27 January 1980384,980 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 27, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 79.7% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

79.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
384,980 km239,215 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (13°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 27, 1980 is on Friday, February 1, 1980 at 02:21 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, January 24, 198013:58
Full Moon (after)Friday, February 1, 198002:21

The Moon around January 27

More about this date

Sunday, January 27, 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.