Skip to content
The Moon on Monday, July 28, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 14°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on July 28, 1980Waning Gibbous

Monday 28 July 1980369,356 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, July 28, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
369,356 km229,507 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (15°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1980 is on Sunday, July 27, 1980 at 18:54 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 10, 1980 at 19:09 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, July 27, 198018:54
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 3, 198012:00

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Monday, July 28, 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.