Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, October 1 5:51 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, October 8 9:21 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, October 16 1:47 PM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, October 23 10:42 PM
  • New Moon Friday, October 30 4:03 PM

Also in October

  • Rosh Hashanah Saturday, October 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Monday, October 12 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 17 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 73% lit, 2 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Friday, October 30 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 1–5, October 27–31.

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 2054 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
1 Thursday
New Moon
5:51 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 7:46 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:45 AM
Set: 8:23 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 9:01 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:01 AM
Set: 9:42 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:05 PM
Set: 10:25 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:04 PM
Set: 11:11 PM
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:58 PM
Set: –
8 Thursday
First Quarter
9:21 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:46 PM
Set: 12:01 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:29 PM
Set: 12:53 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:08 PM
Set: 1:46 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:43 PM
Set: 2:41 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:15 PM
Set: 3:37 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:45 PM
Set: 4:33 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:14 PM
Set: 5:30 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:44 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
16 Friday
Full Moon
1:47 PM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:14 PM
Set: 7:26 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:46 PM
Set: 8:25 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:21 PM
Set: 9:26 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:00 PM
Set: 10:27 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 11:28 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:36 PM
Set: 12:28 PM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:33 PM
Set: 1:24 PM
23 Friday
Last Quarter
10:42 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:17 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:35 AM
Set: 3:04 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:41 AM
Set: 3:48 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:50 AM
Set: 4:27 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:00 AM
Set: 5:04 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:11 AM
Set: 5:40 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:22 AM
Set: 6:16 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
New Moon
4:03 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:32 AM
Set: 6:53 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:40 AM
Set: 7:32 PM
Dark night