Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Wednesday, October 2 2:51 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, October 10 2:56 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, October 17 7:28 AM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, October 24 4:05 AM

Also in October

  • Annular solar eclipse Wednesday, October 2, 2:45 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Rosh Hashanah Thursday, October 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Saturday, October 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Thursday, October 17 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 81% lit, 1 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Thursday, October 31 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 1–8, October 28–31.

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 2024 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:19 AM
Set: 6:50 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
New Moon
2:51 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:18 AM
Set: 7:09 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:17 AM
Set: 7:29 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:17 AM
Set: 7:51 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:20 AM
Set: 8:16 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:23 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:28 PM
Set: 9:25 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:30 PM
Set: 10:12 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 11:09 PM
10 Thursday
First Quarter
2:56 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: –
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:00 PM
Set: 12:15 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:35 PM
Set: 1:28 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:05 PM
Set: 2:43 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 5:16 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:24 PM
Set: 6:34 AM
17 Thursday
Full Moon
7:28 AM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:52 PM
Set: 7:53 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:24 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:03 PM
Set: 10:35 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:51 PM
Set: 11:52 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:48 PM
Set: 1:02 PM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 2:00 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:58 PM
Set: 2:47 PM
24 Thursday
Last Quarter
4:05 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:23 PM
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:05 AM
Set: 3:52 PM
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:10 AM
Set: 4:16 PM
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:12 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 4:56 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 5:15 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 5:35 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Diwali
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:10 AM
Set: 5:56 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday