Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, October 5 12:48 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, October 13 5:11 PM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, October 21 8:42 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, October 27 11:40 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 9 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Monday, October 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 45% lit, 5 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Sunday, October 27 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 1–2, October 24–31.

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 2019 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:43 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:53 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 10:50 PM
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:01 PM
Set: 11:38 PM
5 Saturday
First Quarter
12:48 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:56 PM
Set: –
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 12:31 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:25 PM
Set: 1:26 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:01 PM
Set: 2:23 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 3:21 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:01 PM
Set: 4:19 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:27 PM
Set: 5:17 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:52 PM
Set: 6:15 AM
13 Sunday
Full Moon
5:11 PM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:44 PM
Set: 8:12 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 9:12 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:44 PM
Set: 10:13 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:21 PM
Set: 11:15 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 12:17 PM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 1:17 PM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 2:14 PM
21 Monday
Last Quarter
8:42 AM
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:05 PM
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:59 AM
Set: 3:51 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:09 AM
Set: 4:31 PM
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:21 AM
Set: 5:07 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 6:13 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
New Moon
11:40 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:04 AM
Set: 6:45 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:17 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:30 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:41 AM
Set: 8:40 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday