Daily lunar detail

June 1980 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Gibbous and closes with a Waning Gibbous. It contains 4 exact major phase events.

Icons use the common Northern Hemisphere convention: waxing light on the right, waning light on the left. Your sky may appear rotated at other latitudes.

Last QuarterJune 6, 1980 at 2:53 AM UTC
New MoonJune 12, 1980 at 8:38 PM UTC
First QuarterJune 20, 1980 at 12:32 PM UTC
Full MoonJune 28, 1980 at 9:02 AM UTC

The lunar story of June 1980

New Moon occurs June 12, 1980. Full Moon occurs June 28, 1980. The first major event is Last Quarter on June 6, 1980, and the month progresses from 93% to 95% illumination at noon UTC on its boundary dates.

Choosing a day

Select any Moon to open its precise phase angle, illuminated fraction, elapsed age since New Moon, trend, and neighboring event. Date result pages remain shareable but are excluded from search indexing.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

What time are daily phases calculated?

12:00 UTC, chosen deliberately to keep date-only selections stable worldwide.

Why can a local phase event fall on another date?

An event near 00:00 UTC may occur on the previous local date west of Greenwich or the next local date east of it.

Do the icons show sky orientation?

They use a Northern Hemisphere convention; actual orientation rotates with latitude and viewing angle.