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The Moon on Friday, December 5, 1980: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on December 5, 1980Waning Crescent

Friday 5 December 1980403,161 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 5, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
403,161 km250,513 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1980 is on Saturday, November 22, 1980 at 06:39 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 7, 1980 at 14:35 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, November 29, 198009:59
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 7, 198014:35

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Friday, December 5, 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.