Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, October 5 2:42 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, October 12 8:27 AM
  • New Moon Thursday, October 19 3:13 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, October 27 6:23 PM

Also in October

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Wednesday, October 4 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Thursday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Diwali Thursday, October 19 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 3% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 15–24.

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 2017 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 2:58 AM
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 3:58 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 5:00 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 6:04 AM
5 Thursday
Full Moon
2:42 PM
Harvest Moon
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:29 PM
Set: 7:10 AM
6 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:04 PM
Set: 8:18 AM
7 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:42 PM
Set: 9:27 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:24 PM
Set: 10:37 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 11:46 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 12:53 PM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:54 PM
12 Thursday
Last Quarter
8:27 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:01 AM
Set: 2:50 PM
13 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 3:39 PM
14 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:08 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:13 AM
Set: 5:00 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 5:34 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:22 AM
Set: 6:06 PM
Dark night
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:24 AM
Set: 6:37 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
New Moon
3:13 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:25 AM
Set: 7:08 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waxing crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:26 AM
Set: 7:39 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:25 AM
Set: 8:13 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:22 AM
Set: 8:49 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:11 PM
Set: 10:12 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 10:59 PM
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 11:50 PM
27 Friday
First Quarter
6:23 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:29 PM
Set: –
28 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 12:44 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 1:42 AM
30 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:18 PM
Set: 2:42 AM
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:51 PM
Set: 3:44 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday