Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, August 6 11:06 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, August 14 12:50 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, August 21 9:38 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, August 28 1:32 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 39% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Adha Thursday, August 17 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 2–12.

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).

July August 2051 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:53 AM
Set: 4:31 PM
2 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:44 AM
Set: 5:30 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:40 AM
Set: 6:22 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:39 AM
Set: 7:09 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 7:50 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
New Moon
11:06 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:41 AM
Set: 8:26 PM
Dark night
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:42 AM
Set: 8:59 PM
Dark night
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:41 AM
Set: 9:30 PM
Dark night
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:39 AM
Set: 9:59 PM
Dark night
10 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:36 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
Dark night
11 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:33 AM
Set: 10:58 PM
Dark night
12 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:29 PM
Set: 11:30 PM
Dark night
13 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: –
14 Monday
First Quarter
12:50 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:20 PM
Set: 12:04 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:14 PM
Set: 12:43 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:08 PM
Set: 1:25 AM
17 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:59 PM
Set: 2:14 AM
18 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 3:08 AM
19 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:33 PM
Set: 4:08 AM
20 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
21 Monday
Full Moon
9:38 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:54 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:31 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:08 PM
Set: 8:40 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:46 PM
Set: 9:51 AM
25 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:25 PM
Set: 11:02 AM
26 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:06 PM
Set: 12:13 PM
27 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:52 PM
Set: 1:21 PM
28 Monday
Last Quarter
1:32 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:25 PM
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:36 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:33 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday