Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, October 4 5:40 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, October 10 10:53 PM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, October 18 1:56 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, October 26 12:14 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 6 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Monday, October 11 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 24% lit, 7 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Tuesday, October 26 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 1, October 22–30.

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).

September October 2049 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:12 PM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:12 PM
Set: 10:59 PM
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:06 PM
Set: –
4 Monday
First Quarter
5:40 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:55 PM
Set: 12:02 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:38 PM
Set: 1:10 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:17 PM
Set: 2:20 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 3:31 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:26 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 5:54 AM
10 Sunday
Full Moon
10:53 PM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:33 PM
Set: 7:04 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:09 PM
Set: 8:14 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:48 PM
Set: 9:21 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 10:26 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:18 PM
Set: 11:26 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:10 PM
Set: 12:21 PM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:04 PM
Set: 1:09 PM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:59 PM
Set: 1:51 PM
18 Monday
Last Quarter
1:56 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:28 PM
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:56 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:53 AM
Set: 3:31 PM
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:49 AM
Set: 4:26 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:48 AM
Set: 5:22 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:50 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
New Moon
12:14 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:54 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:03 AM
Set: 7:59 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 8:54 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:02 PM
Set: 9:56 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 11:02 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday