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The Moon on Friday, March 28, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 92% lit

Waxing · 91.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

11.7days

Moon phase on March 28, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Friday 28 March 1980404,897 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 28, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 91.5% of its visible face lit, 11.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

91.5%Illumination at noon UTC
11.7 dMoon age
404,897 km251,591 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1980 is on Monday, March 31, 1980 at 15:14 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 16, 1980 at 18:56 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 23, 198012:31
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 31, 198015:14

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Friday, March 28, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 16, 1980 to the new moon of April 15, 1980, a cycle of 29.37 days.