Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, August 3 12:00 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, August 11 12:48 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, August 18 10:42 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 25 1:59 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 42% lit, 2 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1442 AH Thursday, August 20 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 15–23.

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).

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:43 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
3 Monday
Full Moon
12:00 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:11 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
4 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
5 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:14 PM
Set: 8:20 AM
6 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:40 PM
Set: 9:21 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:04 PM
Set: 10:21 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:28 PM
Set: 11:19 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:52 PM
Set: 12:17 PM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:15 PM
11 Tuesday
Last Quarter
12:48 PM
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:17 AM
Set: 2:14 PM
12 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:46 AM
Set: 3:15 PM
13 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:19 AM
Set: 4:16 PM
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 5:16 PM
15 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:46 AM
Set: 6:14 PM
Dark night
16 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:42 AM
Set: 7:08 PM
Dark night
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:46 AM
Set: 7:55 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
New Moon
10:42 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 8:36 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:09 AM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1442 AH
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:23 AM
Set: 9:45 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:37 AM
Set: 10:15 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:51 AM
Set: 10:45 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:04 PM
Set: 11:17 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 11:51 PM
25 Tuesday
First Quarter
1:59 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: –
26 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 12:30 AM
27 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 1:14 AM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 2:06 AM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:28 PM
Set: 3:03 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:10 PM
Set: 4:04 AM
31 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:45 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday