Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, August 3 1:49 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, August 10 6:08 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 18 5:24 AM Sturgeon MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, August 26 4:58 AM

Also in August

  • Partial solar eclipse Monday, August 3, 2:02 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1477 AH Wednesday, August 5 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 78% lit, 2 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Tuesday, August 18, 5:25 AM visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–7, August 29–31.

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).

July August 2054 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:12 AM
Set: 7:54 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
New Moon
1:49 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:21 AM
Set: 8:44 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 9:29 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1477 AH
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 10:09 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:00 AM
Set: 10:46 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:10 AM
Set: 11:22 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:18 PM
Set: 11:57 PM
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:24 PM
Set: –
10 Monday
First Quarter
6:08 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:27 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:27 PM
Set: 1:11 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:25 PM
Set: 1:51 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:07 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:51 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:31 PM
Set: 5:05 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:07 PM
Set: 5:59 AM
18 Tuesday
Full Moon
5:24 AM
Sturgeon Moon
Micromoon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:40 PM
Set: 6:55 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:11 PM
Set: 7:51 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:40 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:09 PM
Set: 9:44 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:38 PM
Set: 10:41 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:09 PM
Set: 11:39 AM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:43 PM
Set: 12:38 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:38 PM
26 Wednesday
Last Quarter
4:58 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:55 AM
Set: 4:41 PM
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:52 AM
Set: 5:38 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:57 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:07 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday