Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Wednesday, August 6 10:51 PM Sturgeon MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, August 14 9:38 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, August 21 1:36 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, August 28 10:45 AM

Also in August

  • Total lunar eclipse Wednesday, August 6, 10:51 PM visible from Columbus
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 74% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Thursday, August 21, 1:24 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 18–25.

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 2036 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:36 PM
Set: 2:09 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:31 PM
Set: 2:49 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:09 PM
Set: 4:20 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:52 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
6 Wednesday
Full Moon
10:51 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Micromoon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 6:04 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:05 PM
Set: 6:59 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 7:56 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:07 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:36 PM
Set: 9:50 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:05 PM
Set: 10:47 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:35 PM
Set: 11:46 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:47 PM
14 Thursday
Last Quarter
9:38 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:07 AM
Set: 1:49 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 2:52 PM
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:23 AM
Set: 3:57 PM
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:11 AM
Set: 5:01 PM
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:07 AM
Set: 6:01 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:10 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:20 AM
Set: 7:47 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
New Moon
1:36 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 8:31 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:47 AM
Set: 9:11 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:00 AM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:11 AM
Set: 10:22 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:19 AM
Set: 10:56 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:25 PM
Set: 11:31 PM
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:28 PM
Set: –
28 Thursday
First Quarter
10:45 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 12:08 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:25 PM
Set: 12:47 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:18 PM
Set: 1:30 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 2:16 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday