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The Moon on Tuesday, July 22, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 71% lit

Waxing · 71.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

10.2days

Moon phase on July 22, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 22 July 1980396,828 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 22, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.3% of its visible face lit, 10.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.3%Illumination at noon UTC
10.2 dMoon age
396,828 km246,577 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 22, 1980 is on Sunday, July 27, 1980 at 18:54 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 12, 1980 at 06:46 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, July 20, 198005:51
Full Moon (after)Sunday, July 27, 198018:54

The Moon around July 22

More about this date

Tuesday, July 22, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 12, 1980 to the new moon of August 10, 1980, a cycle of 29.52 days.