Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Thursday, October 3 11:58 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, October 11 6:47 AM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 19 10:51 AM
  • New Moon Saturday, October 26 4:17 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Monday, October 7 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 29% lit, 7 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Saturday, October 26 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, October 23–30.

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).

September October 2030 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:24 PM
Set: 10:09 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:26 PM
Set: 11:10 PM
3 Thursday
First Quarter
11:58 PM
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:21 PM
Set: –
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 12:15 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:48 PM
Set: 1:23 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 2:31 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:55 PM
Set: 3:38 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:24 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:53 PM
Set: 5:47 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:21 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
11 Friday
Full Moon
6:47 AM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:52 PM
Set: 7:51 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:25 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:01 PM
Set: 9:52 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:41 PM
Set: 10:49 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 11:43 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:15 PM
Set: 12:33 PM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:09 PM
Set: 1:18 PM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:58 PM
19 Saturday
Last Quarter
10:51 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:05 AM
Set: 2:34 PM
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:05 AM
Set: 3:37 PM
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 5:42 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
New Moon
4:17 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 6:21 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:07 AM
Set: 7:59 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:14 AM
Set: 8:59 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:14 PM
Set: 10:05 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:05 PM
Set: 11:14 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday