The Moon Today
Tonight is a dark night for stargazing: no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness.
Dates and Times of the Phases
- First Quarter Saturday, November 2 7:58 AM
- Full Moon Saturday, November 9 10:32 PM Beaver Moon
- Last Quarter Monday, November 18 3:34 AM
- New Moon Monday, November 25 1:47 AM
Also in November
- Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 17–18 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 54% lit, 5 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
- Total solar eclipse Monday, November 25, 1:50 AM not visible from Columbus
Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: November 21–27.
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).
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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27 Sunday
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28 Monday
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29 Tuesday
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30 Wednesday
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31 Thursday
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1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:48 PM
Set: –
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2 Saturday
First Quarter
7:58 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 12:23 AM
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3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:58 PM
Set: 1:31 AM
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4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:27 PM
Set: 1:36 AM
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5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:55 PM
Set: 2:39 AM
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6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:24 PM
Set: 3:42 AM
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7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
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8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:25 PM
Set: 5:43 AM
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9 Saturday
Full Moon
10:32 PM
Beaver Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:00 PM
Set: 6:43 AM
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10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:38 PM
Set: 7:41 AM
|
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 8:36 AM
|
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:10 PM
Set: 9:27 AM
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13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 10:14 AM
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14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 10:55 AM
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15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:54 PM
Set: 11:33 AM
|
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 12:06 PM
|
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17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:53 PM
Set: 12:37 PM
|
18 Monday
Last Quarter
3:34 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:06 PM
|
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:55 AM
Set: 1:34 PM
|
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:59 AM
Set: 2:04 PM
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21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:05 AM
Set: 2:36 PM
Dark night
|
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 3:11 PM
Dark night
|
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:27 AM
Set: 3:53 PM
Dark night
|
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24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:41 AM
Set: 4:42 PM
Dark night
|
25 Monday
New Moon
1:47 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
|
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:58 AM
Set: 6:46 PM
Dark night
|
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
|
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 9:08 PM
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29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:24 AM
Set: 10:19 PM
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30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 11:27 PM
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