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The Moon on Friday, December 26, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 76% lit

Waning · 75.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 03°

Moon age

18.9days

Moon phase on December 26, 1980Waning Gibbous

Friday 26 December 1980392,431 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 26, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 75.8% of its visible face lit, 18.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

75.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.9 dMoon age
392,431 km243,845 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1980 is on Sunday, December 21, 1980 at 18:08 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 6, 1981 at 07:24 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 21, 198018:08
Last Quarter (after)Monday, December 29, 198006:32

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Friday, December 26, 1980 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1980 to the new moon of January 6, 1981, a cycle of 29.70 days.