Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, September 3 2:09 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, September 10 5:59 AM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, September 17 5:52 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, September 25 5:54 PM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Saturday, September 10 Chinese calendar
  • Rosh Hashanah Monday, September 26 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, September 22–30.

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 2022 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:25 PM
Set: 10:49 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:37 PM
Set: 11:24 PM
3 Saturday
First Quarter
2:09 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:50 PM
Set: –
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 12:07 AM
5 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:06 PM
Set: 1:00 AM
6 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 6:02 PM
Set: 2:05 AM
7 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:47 PM
Set: 3:19 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:24 PM
Set: 4:36 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:55 PM
Set: 5:54 AM
10 Saturday
Full Moon
5:59 AM
Harvest Moon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:22 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:47 PM
Set: 8:20 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:11 PM
Set: 9:30 AM
13 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:36 PM
Set: 10:38 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 11:45 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:35 PM
Set: 12:50 PM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:12 PM
Set: 1:54 PM
17 Saturday
Last Quarter
5:52 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 2:54 PM
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:49 PM
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:44 AM
Set: 4:38 PM
20 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:40 AM
Set: 5:19 PM
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:40 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:42 AM
Set: 6:24 PM
Dark night
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:46 AM
Set: 6:50 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:50 AM
Set: 7:14 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
New Moon
5:54 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:54 AM
Set: 7:37 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:00 AM
Set: 8:00 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:07 AM
Set: 8:24 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:16 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:28 AM
Set: 9:24 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: 10:04 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday