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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 1980: Waning Gibbous, 57% lit

Waning · 57.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 28°

Moon age

20.9days

Moon phase on December 28, 1980Waning Gibbous

Sunday 28 December 1980400,807 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 1980, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 57.5% of its visible face lit, 20.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

57.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.9 dMoon age
400,807 km249,050 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (28°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1980 is on Sunday, December 21, 1980 at 18:08 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 6, 1981 at 07:24 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 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.