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The Moon on Saturday, November 8, 1980: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on November 8, 1980Waxing Crescent

Saturday 8 November 1980403,768 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, November 8, 1980, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
403,768 km250,890 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 8, 1980 is on Saturday, November 22, 1980 at 06:39 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 7, 1980 at 20:43 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, November 7, 198020:43
First Quarter (after)Saturday, November 15, 198015:47

The Moon around November 8

More about this date

Saturday, November 8, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 7, 1980 to the new moon of December 7, 1980, a cycle of 29.74 days.