Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Thursday, September 5 11:12 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, September 14 12:35 AM Harvest MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, September 21 10:44 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, September 28 2:28 PM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Friday, September 13 Chinese calendar
  • Rosh Hashanah Monday, September 30 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–3, September 25–30.

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).

August September 2019 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:29 AM
Set: 9:51 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:42 AM
Set: 10:23 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:53 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:02 PM
Set: 11:33 PM
5 Thursday
First Quarter
11:12 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:08 PM
Set: –
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 12:13 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:08 PM
Set: 12:56 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:00 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:45 PM
Set: 2:38 AM
10 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:24 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
12 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:29 PM
Set: 5:29 AM
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:57 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
14 Saturday
Full Moon
12:35 AM
Harvest Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:23 PM
Set: 7:24 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:13 PM
Set: 9:20 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 10:18 AM
18 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:10 PM
Set: 11:18 AM
19 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:43 PM
Set: 12:19 PM
20 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:22 PM
Set: 1:21 PM
21 Saturday
Last Quarter
10:44 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:23 PM
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:08 AM
Set: 3:23 PM
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:03 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:06 AM
Set: 5:10 PM
25 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:15 AM
Set: 5:55 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 6:35 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:45 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
New Moon
2:28 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:01 AM
Set: 7:45 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:16 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday