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The Moon on Sunday, November 2, 1980: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 23.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 11°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on November 2, 1980Waning Crescent

Sunday 2 November 1980401,941 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 2, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.9% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.9%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
401,941 km249,754 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (12°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 2, 1980 is on Thursday, October 23, 1980 at 20:52 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 7, 1980 at 20:43 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, October 30, 198016:33
New Moon (after)Friday, November 7, 198020:43

The Moon around November 2

More about this date

Sunday, November 2, 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.