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The Moon on Friday, October 10, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

1.4days

Moon phase on October 10, 1980Waxing Crescent

Friday 10 October 1980406,396 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 10, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.9% of its visible face lit, 1.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.4 dMoon age
406,396 km252,523 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 10, 1980 is on Thursday, October 23, 1980 at 20:52 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 9, 1980 at 02:50 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 9, 198002:50
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 17, 198003:47

The Moon around October 10

More about this date

Friday, October 10, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 9, 1980 to the new moon of November 7, 1980, a cycle of 29.75 days.