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The Moon on Wednesday, August 20, 1980: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 65.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 15°

Moon age

9.7days

Moon phase on August 20, 1980Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 20 August 1980392,120 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 20, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.4% of its visible face lit, 9.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.7 dMoon age
392,120 km243,652 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (15°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 10, 1980 at 19:09 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 18, 198022:28
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 26, 198003:42

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Wednesday, August 20, 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.