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The Moon on Wednesday, August 27, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 23°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on August 27, 1980Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 27 August 1980360,934 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 27, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.3% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
360,934 km224,274 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (23°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 9, 1980 at 10:00 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 26, 198003:42
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 1, 198018:08

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Wednesday, August 27, 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.