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The Moon on Friday, August 29, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 84.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 22°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on August 29, 1980Waning Gibbous

Friday 29 August 1980363,073 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 29, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.3% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.3%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
363,073 km225,603 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (23°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 9, 1980 at 10:00 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Friday, August 29, 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.