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, November 2 12:20 PM
- Full Moon Tuesday, November 9 10:38 AM Beaver Moon
- Last Quarter Wednesday, November 17 9:34 AM
- New Moon Thursday, November 25 12:35 AM
Also in November
- Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, November 9, 10:50 AM not visible from Columbus
- Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 17–18 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 48% lit, 6 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
- Total solar eclipse Thursday, November 25, 12:32 AM not visible from Columbus
Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: November 21–27.
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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31 Sunday
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1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: –
|
2 Tuesday
First Quarter
12:20 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:17 PM
Set: 12:11 AM
|
3 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:53 PM
Set: 1:21 AM
|
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:26 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
|
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:58 PM
Set: 3:39 AM
|
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:30 PM
Set: 4:48 AM
|
|
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:04 PM
Set: 4:56 AM
|
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:42 PM
Set: 6:03 AM
|
9 Tuesday
Full Moon
10:38 AM
Beaver Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:23 PM
Set: 7:09 AM
|
10 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:09 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
|
11 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 9:09 AM
|
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:52 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
|
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 10:45 AM
|
|
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 11:25 AM
|
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:42 PM
Set: 11:59 AM
|
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:39 PM
Set: 12:30 PM
|
17 Wednesday
Last Quarter
9:34 AM
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:59 PM
|
18 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:36 AM
Set: 1:26 PM
|
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:34 AM
Set: 1:53 PM
|
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 2:21 PM
|
|
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:33 AM
Set: 2:51 PM
Dark night
|
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:36 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
Dark night
|
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:41 AM
Set: 4:04 PM
Dark night
|
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:47 AM
Set: 4:49 PM
Dark night
|
25 Thursday
New Moon
12:35 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:52 AM
Set: 5:43 PM
Dark night
|
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:53 AM
Set: 6:44 PM
Dark night
|
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:48 AM
Set: 7:51 PM
Dark night
|
|
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:36 AM
Set: 9:01 PM
|
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: 10:12 PM
|
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:55 AM
Set: 11:22 PM
|
1 Wednesday
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2 Thursday
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3 Friday
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4 Saturday
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