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The Moon on Wednesday, January 30, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

12.6days

Moon phase on January 30, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 30 January 1980395,079 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 30, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 12.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
12.6 dMoon age
395,079 km245,491 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 1980 is on Friday, February 1, 1980 at 02:21 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 17, 1980 at 21:20 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Wednesday, January 30, 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.