Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, September 7 2:32 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, September 15 7:05 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, September 23 6:22 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, September 29 10:37 PM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Wednesday, September 15 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–5, September 19, September 26–30.

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 2027 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:04 AM
Set: 8:23 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:18 AM
Set: 8:50 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:31 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 9:49 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 10:25 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 11:07 PM
7 Tuesday
First Quarter
2:32 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:00 PM
Set: 11:56 PM
8 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: –
9 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:38 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
10 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:16 PM
Set: 1:49 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:47 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:14 PM
Set: 3:51 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:38 PM
Set: 4:52 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:00 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
15 Wednesday
Full Moon
7:05 PM
Harvest Moon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:21 PM
Set: 6:53 AM
16 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:43 PM
Set: 7:54 AM
17 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:06 PM
Set: 8:56 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:33 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:04 PM
Set: 11:07 AM
Dark night
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:43 PM
Set: 12:15 PM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:30 PM
Set: 1:23 PM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:28 PM
Set: 2:27 PM
23 Thursday
Last Quarter
6:22 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:23 PM
24 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 4:11 PM
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:49 AM
Set: 4:51 PM
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:06 AM
Set: 5:25 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:22 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:38 AM
Set: 6:22 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
New Moon
10:37 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 6:48 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:06 AM
Set: 7:16 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday