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The Moon on Sunday, May 18, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 19% lit

Waxing · 19.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on May 18, 1980Waxing Crescent

Sunday 18 May 1980384,796 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 18, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 19.3% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

19.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
384,796 km239,101 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 18, 1980 is on Thursday, May 29, 1980 at 21:28 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 14, 1980 at 12:00 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, May 14, 198012:00
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, May 21, 198019:16

The Moon around May 18

More about this date

Sunday, May 18, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 14, 1980 to the new moon of June 12, 1980, a cycle of 29.36 days.