Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, October 7 3:15 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, October 14 7:10 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, October 22 5:29 AM Hunter's MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, October 30 7:33 AM

Also in October

  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 99% lit, 0 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 4–11.

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 2029 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
2 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 4:01 PM
3 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:35 AM
Set: 4:35 PM
4 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 5:36 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 6:08 PM
Dark night
7 Sunday
New Moon
3:15 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:24 AM
Set: 6:41 PM
Dark night
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:41 AM
Set: 7:19 PM
Dark night
9 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:59 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
10 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 8:53 PM
Dark night
11 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:22 PM
Set: 9:51 PM
Dark night
12 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:22 PM
Set: 10:54 PM
13 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:12 PM
Set: –
14 Sunday
First Quarter
7:10 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:53 PM
Set: 12:00 AM
15 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:27 PM
Set: 1:06 AM
16 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:57 PM
Set: 2:11 AM
17 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
18 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:48 PM
Set: 4:13 AM
19 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:13 PM
Set: 5:13 AM
20 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:38 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
21 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 7:10 AM
22 Monday
Full Moon
5:29 AM
Hunter's Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:34 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
23 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:08 PM
Set: 9:07 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:46 PM
Set: 10:05 AM
25 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 11:00 AM
26 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:21 PM
Set: 11:52 AM
27 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:17 PM
Set: 12:39 PM
28 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:17 PM
Set: 1:21 PM
29 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:59 PM
30 Tuesday
Last Quarter
7:33 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 2:32 PM
31 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:26 AM
Set: 3:03 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday