Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, August 3 1:13 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, August 10 5:53 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, August 18 9:02 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, August 26 5:10 AM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 73% lit, 3 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Saturday, August 18, 9:11 PM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–7, August 29–31.

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).

July August 2035 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:16 AM
Set: 7:53 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
New Moon
1:13 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:25 AM
Set: 8:42 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:35 AM
Set: 9:25 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:44 AM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:52 AM
Set: 10:38 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 11:11 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 11:43 PM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:59 PM
Set: –
10 Friday
First Quarter
5:53 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:57 PM
Set: 12:16 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:54 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:49 PM
Set: 1:27 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 2:06 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 2:50 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:17 PM
Set: 3:37 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 4:28 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:39 PM
Set: 5:22 AM
18 Saturday
Full Moon
9:02 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:15 PM
Set: 6:18 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:22 PM
Set: 8:17 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:55 PM
Set: 9:18 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:27 PM
Set: 10:21 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 11:24 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:39 PM
Set: 12:29 PM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:35 PM
26 Sunday
Last Quarter
5:10 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:20 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 3:44 PM
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:01 AM
Set: 4:45 PM
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:00 AM
Set: 5:42 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:05 AM
Set: 6:32 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:13 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday