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The Moon on Tuesday, October 28, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 72.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 08°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on October 28, 1980Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 28 October 1980376,414 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 28, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 72.5% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

72.5%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
376,414 km233,893 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 28, 1980 is on Thursday, October 23, 1980 at 20:52 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 7, 1980 at 20:43 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, October 23, 198020:52
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, October 30, 198016:33

The Moon around October 28

More about this date

Tuesday, October 28, 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.