Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Wednesday, October 4 4:48 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, October 12 8:13 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, October 19 3:15 PM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, October 26 8:41 AM

Also in October

  • Partial solar eclipse Wednesday, October 4, 5:01 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Thursday, October 19, 3:10 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 92% lit, 0 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 1–9, October 30–31.

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 2051 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:26 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:23 AM
Set: 6:04 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 6:33 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
New Moon
4:48 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:17 AM
Set: 7:02 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:13 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:09 AM
Set: 8:05 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:04 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:58 AM
Set: 9:19 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 10:02 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:42 PM
Set: 10:50 PM
11 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:31 PM
Set: 11:42 PM
12 Thursday
First Quarter
8:13 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:16 PM
Set: –
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 12:39 AM
14 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:39 PM
Set: 1:40 AM
15 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:17 PM
Set: 2:44 AM
16 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:54 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
17 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:31 PM
Set: 5:02 AM
18 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:10 PM
Set: 6:14 AM
19 Thursday
Full Moon
3:15 PM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:51 PM
Set: 7:27 AM
20 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 8:41 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 9:54 AM
22 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:20 PM
Set: 11:02 AM
23 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 12:04 PM
24 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:19 PM
Set: 12:59 PM
25 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:46 PM
26 Thursday
Last Quarter
8:41 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:20 AM
Set: 2:27 PM
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:20 AM
Set: 3:03 PM
28 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 3:36 PM
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:18 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
30 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:15 AM
Set: 4:36 PM
Dark night
31 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 5:05 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday