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The Moon on Sunday, December 7, 1980: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

New Moon at

14:35UTC

Moon phase on December 7, 1980New Moon

Sunday 7 December 1980398,205 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 7, 1980, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.6 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.6 dMoon age
398,205 km247,433 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 7, 1980 is on Sunday, December 21, 1980 at 18:08 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 7, 1980 at 14:35 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, November 29, 198009:59
New Moon (this day)Sunday, December 7, 198014:35
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 15, 198001:47

The Moon around December 7

More about this date

Sunday, December 7, 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.