Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, September 7, 1980: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 23°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on September 7, 1980Waning Crescent

Sunday 7 September 1980398,259 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 7, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
398,259 km247,467 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (24°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 7, 1980 is on Tuesday, August 26, 1980 at 03:42 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 9, 1980 at 10:00 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, September 1, 198018:08
New Moon (after)Tuesday, September 9, 198010:00

The Moon around September 7

More about this date

Sunday, September 7, 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.