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The Moon on Friday, September 26, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

17.1days

Moon phase on September 26, 1980Waning Gibbous

Friday 26 September 1980359,256 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 26, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.8% of its visible face lit, 17.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.1 dMoon age
359,256 km223,231 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1980 is on Wednesday, September 24, 1980 at 12:08 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 9, 1980 at 02:50 UTC, 13 days later.

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Friday, September 26, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 9, 1980 to the new moon of October 9, 1980, a cycle of 29.70 days.