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 Tuesday, June 8 1:58 PM
- Full Moon Tuesday, June 15 3:29 PM Strawberry MoonSupermoon
- Last Quarter Tuesday, June 22 5:43 AM
- New Moon Wednesday, June 30 12:52 AM
Also in June
- Ramadan begins Wednesday, June 2 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
- Dragon Boat Festival Friday, June 4 Chinese calendar
- Shavuot Sunday, June 6 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
- Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, June 15, 3:13 PM not visible from Columbus
Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: June 1–4, June 25–30.
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).
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
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30 Sunday
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31 Monday
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1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:53 AM
Set: 10:00 PM
Dark night
|
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:46 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
Dark night
|
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:42 AM
Set: 11:19 PM
Dark night
|
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Dragon Boat Festival
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 11:52 PM
Dark night
|
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:36 AM
Set: –
|
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6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Shavuot
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:34 AM
Set: 12:22 AM
|
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:32 PM
Set: 12:49 AM
|
8 Tuesday
First Quarter
1:58 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:31 PM
Set: 1:16 AM
|
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: 1:43 AM
|
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:35 PM
Set: 2:11 AM
|
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 2:41 AM
|
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 3:17 AM
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13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
|
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:04 PM
Set: 4:49 AM
|
15 Tuesday
Full Moon
3:29 PM
Strawberry Moon Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:06 PM
Set: 5:48 AM
|
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 6:56 AM
|
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:47 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
|
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:26 PM
Set: 9:23 AM
|
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:37 AM
|
|
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:01 AM
Set: 11:48 AM
|
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:33 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
|
22 Tuesday
Last Quarter
5:43 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:03 AM
Set: 2:04 PM
|
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:34 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
|
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:06 AM
Set: 4:12 PM
|
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:41 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
|
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 6:12 PM
Dark night
|
|
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 7:07 PM
Dark night
|
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:49 AM
Set: 7:57 PM
Dark night
|
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
|
30 Wednesday
New Moon
12:52 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:35 AM
Set: 9:20 PM
Dark night
|
1 Thursday
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2 Friday
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3 Saturday
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