Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 4 5:42 AM
  • New Moon Monday, April 10 10:01 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, April 17 6:39 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, April 25 10:20 PM Pink Moon

Also in April

  • Easter Monday, April 2 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Partial solar eclipse Monday, April 10, 10:09 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 93% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Tuesday, April 25, 10:15 PM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 5–12, April 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).

March April 2051 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:08 AM
Set: 10:17 AM
2 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:01 AM
Set: 11:05 AM
3 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:52 AM
Set: 11:59 AM
4 Tuesday
Last Quarter
5:42 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:39 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
5 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:23 AM
Set: 2:01 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:05 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:43 AM
Set: 4:17 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:21 AM
Set: 5:28 PM
Dark night
9 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:58 AM
Set: 6:42 PM
Dark night
10 Monday
New Moon
10:01 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:36 AM
Set: 7:56 PM
Dark night
11 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:17 AM
Set: 9:10 PM
Dark night
12 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:01 AM
Set: 10:21 PM
Dark night
13 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:49 AM
Set: 11:28 PM
14 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: –
15 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:38 AM
Set: 12:29 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 1:22 AM
17 Monday
First Quarter
6:39 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:36 PM
Set: 2:09 AM
18 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:35 PM
Set: 2:49 AM
19 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:34 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
20 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 3:56 AM
21 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:27 PM
Set: 4:26 AM
22 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:23 PM
Set: 4:55 AM
23 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:19 PM
Set: 5:23 AM
24 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
25 Tuesday
Full Moon
10:20 PM
Pink Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:11 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
26 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:08 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
27 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 7:34 AM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:57 PM
Set: 8:16 AM
29 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:49 PM
Set: 9:02 AM
30 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:54 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday