Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, April 4 8:07 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, April 11 11:45 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, April 18 2:59 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, April 25 7:57 PM

Also in April

  • Total lunar eclipse Saturday, April 4, 8:00 AM partly visible from Columbus
  • Passover Saturday, April 4 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 5 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 22% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 13–20.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

March April 2015 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:34 PM
Set: 5:47 AM
2 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:29 PM
Set: 6:17 AM
3 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:25 PM
Set: 6:46 AM
4 Saturday
Full Moon
8:07 AM
Pink Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:22 PM
Set: 7:16 AM
5 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:19 PM
Set: 7:48 AM
6 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:17 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
7 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 8:59 AM
8 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:40 AM
9 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:12 AM
Set: 10:27 AM
10 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 11:19 AM
11 Saturday
Last Quarter
11:45 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 12:17 PM
12 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:47 AM
Set: 1:19 PM
13 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 2:25 PM
Dark night
14 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:14 AM
Set: 3:34 PM
Dark night
15 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:54 AM
Set: 4:45 PM
Dark night
16 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:32 AM
Set: 5:56 PM
Dark night
17 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 7:08 PM
Dark night
18 Saturday
New Moon
2:59 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:50 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
19 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:31 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
Dark night
20 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:15 AM
Set: 10:35 PM
Dark night
21 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:03 AM
Set: 11:37 PM
22 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: –
23 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:47 AM
Set: 12:32 AM
24 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 1:21 AM
25 Saturday
First Quarter
7:57 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:39 PM
Set: 2:04 AM
26 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:35 PM
Set: 2:43 AM
27 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:30 PM
Set: 3:17 AM
28 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
29 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:21 PM
Set: 4:19 AM
30 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 4:48 AM
1 Friday
2 Saturday