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The Moon on Sunday, August 17, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 36% lit

Waxing · 36.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

6.7days

Moon phase on August 17, 1980Waxing Crescent

Sunday 17 August 1980403,458 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 17, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 36.5% of its visible face lit, 6.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

36.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.7 dMoon age
403,458 km250,697 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 17, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 10, 1980 at 19:09 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 10, 198019:09
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 18, 198022:28

The Moon around August 17

More about this date

Sunday, August 17, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 1980 to the new moon of September 9, 1980, a cycle of 29.62 days.