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The Moon on Saturday, August 30, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 75% lit

Waning · 74.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 07°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on August 30, 1980Waning Gibbous

Saturday 30 August 1980366,105 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 30, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.8% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
366,105 km227,487 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (7°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 9, 1980 at 10:00 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Saturday, August 30, 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.