Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Friday, October 2 11:14 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, October 11 3:07 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, October 18 7:58 AM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 24 10:30 PM

Also in October

  • Partial solar eclipse Friday, October 2, 11:00 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Rosh Hashanah Monday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Monday, October 19 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 82% lit, 1 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 1–8, October 28–31.

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).

September October 2043 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:51 AM
Set: 6:39 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
New Moon
11:14 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:55 AM
Set: 7:00 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:58 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 7:42 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 8:07 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:07 AM
Set: 8:37 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:10 PM
Set: 9:12 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:10 PM
Set: 9:54 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 2:06 PM
Set: 10:44 PM
10 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:54 PM
Set: 11:42 PM
11 Sunday
First Quarter
3:07 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:36 PM
Set: –
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 12:46 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 1:53 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:07 PM
Set: 3:02 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:31 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:55 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
17 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:20 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
18 Sunday
Full Moon
7:58 AM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:47 PM
Set: 7:53 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:20 PM
Set: 9:12 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 10:34 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:51 PM
Set: 11:54 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:53 PM
Set: 1:06 PM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 2:06 PM
24 Saturday
Last Quarter
10:30 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:53 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:16 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 3:59 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:38 AM
Set: 4:23 PM
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 4:45 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 5:05 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 5:26 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:51 AM
Set: 5:47 PM
Dark night