Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, April 7 7:25 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, April 14 12:01 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, April 22 1:25 AM Pink MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 29 11:30 PM

Also in April

  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Passover Saturday, April 23 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 2–9.

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 2016 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 1:38 PM
2 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 2:39 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:45 AM
Set: 3:45 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:25 AM
Set: 4:54 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:04 AM
Set: 6:05 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 7:18 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
New Moon
7:25 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:22 AM
Set: 8:32 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:03 AM
Set: 9:45 PM
Dark night
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 10:56 PM
Dark night
10 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: –
11 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:26 AM
Set: 12:03 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:21 AM
Set: 1:05 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:18 PM
Set: 1:59 AM
14 Thursday
First Quarter
12:01 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:17 PM
Set: 2:47 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:16 PM
Set: 3:29 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:14 PM
Set: 4:07 AM
17 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 4:40 AM
18 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
19 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:03 PM
Set: 5:41 AM
20 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 6:10 AM
21 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:54 PM
Set: 6:40 AM
22 Friday
Full Moon
1:25 AM
Pink Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 7:11 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 7:45 AM
24 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:40 PM
Set: 8:21 AM
25 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 9:01 AM
26 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:46 AM
27 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 10:35 AM
28 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:13 AM
Set: 11:29 AM
29 Friday
Last Quarter
11:30 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 12:27 PM
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:41 AM
Set: 1:29 PM