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The Moon on Tuesday, April 29, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

14.3days

Moon phase on April 29, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 29 April 1980402,942 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 29, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 14.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
14.3 dMoon age
402,942 km250,377 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (0°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 29, 1980 is on Wednesday, April 30, 1980 at 07:35 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 15, 1980 at 03:46 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, April 22, 198003:00
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, April 30, 198007:35

The Moon around April 29

More about this date

Tuesday, April 29, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 15, 1980 to the new moon of May 14, 1980, a cycle of 29.34 days.