Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, October 8 6:57 AM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, October 14 10:24 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, October 22 11:04 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, October 30 3:41 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Thursday, October 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Partial lunar eclipse Tuesday, October 8, 6:44 AM visible from Columbus
  • Sukkot Tuesday, October 8 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 1% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Tuesday, October 22 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 18–26.

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 2052 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:00 PM
Set: 12:29 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:42 PM
Set: 1:22 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:21 PM
Set: 2:18 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:58 PM
Set: 3:17 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:34 PM
Set: 4:20 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:09 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 6:31 AM
8 Tuesday
Full Moon
6:57 AM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Partial lunar eclipse
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:04 PM
Set: 8:50 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 10:01 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 11:10 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:35 PM
Set: 12:15 PM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:35 PM
Set: 1:15 PM
14 Monday
Last Quarter
10:24 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:09 PM
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:37 AM
Set: 2:56 PM
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:40 AM
Set: 3:38 PM
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:43 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:46 AM
Set: 4:49 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 5:22 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:47 AM
Set: 5:53 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 6:25 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
New Moon
11:04 AM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:44 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:41 AM
Set: 7:32 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:37 AM
Set: 8:10 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:31 AM
Set: 8:50 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:22 AM
Set: 9:34 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:11 PM
Set: 10:21 PM
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:56 PM
Set: 11:12 PM
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: –
30 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:41 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:17 PM
Set: 12:06 AM
31 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:54 PM
Set: 1:03 AM
1 Friday
2 Saturday