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The Moon on Sunday, March 30, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 98.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 27°

Moon age

13.7days

Moon phase on March 30, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 30 March 1980406,322 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 30, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.8% of its visible face lit, 13.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.7 dMoon age
406,322 km252,477 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (28°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1980 is on Monday, March 31, 1980 at 15:14 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 16, 1980 at 18:56 UTC, 14 days earlier.

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

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Sunday, March 30, 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.