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The Moon on Sunday, October 12, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 10% lit

Waxing · 10.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

3.4days

Moon phase on October 12, 1980Waxing Crescent

Sunday 12 October 1980403,722 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 12, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 10.2% of its visible face lit, 3.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

10.2%Illumination at noon UTC
3.4 dMoon age
403,722 km250,861 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (26°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 12, 1980 is on Thursday, October 23, 1980 at 20:52 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 9, 1980 at 02:50 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around October 12

More about this date

Sunday, October 12, 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.