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The Moon on Thursday, June 18, 1981: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on June 18, 1981Waning Gibbous

Thursday 18 June 1981398,772 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, June 18, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
398,772 km247,785 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (7°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 18, 1981 is on Wednesday, June 17, 1981 at 15:05 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 1, 1981 at 19:03 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, June 17, 198115:05
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, June 25, 198104:25

The Moon around June 18

More about this date

Thursday, June 18, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 2, 1981 to the new moon of July 1, 1981, a cycle of 29.31 days.