Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, October 9 12:35 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, October 16 12:25 AM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 22 3:16 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, October 30 1:40 PM

Also in October

  • Islamic New Year 1438 AH Sunday, October 2 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Rosh Hashanah Monday, October 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Monday, October 17 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 67% lit, 3 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Sunday, October 30 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 1–5, October 26–31.

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).

September October 2016 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:57 AM
Set: 7:50 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1438 AH
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:53 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:49 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 10:04 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:32 PM
Set: 10:46 PM
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:23 PM
Set: 11:32 PM
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:12 PM
Set: –
9 Sunday
First Quarter
12:35 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 12:23 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:42 PM
Set: 1:19 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 2:19 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:02 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 4:29 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:17 PM
Set: 5:39 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 6:51 AM
16 Sunday
Full Moon
12:25 AM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:35 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:07 PM
Set: 10:29 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 11:38 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 12:41 PM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:55 PM
Set: 1:38 PM
22 Saturday
Last Quarter
3:16 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:27 PM
23 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:56 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:57 AM
Set: 3:48 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:57 AM
Set: 4:21 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:56 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 5:23 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:50 AM
Set: 5:52 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 6:22 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
New Moon
1:40 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 6:53 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:38 AM
Set: 7:27 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday