Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, September 1 9:20 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, September 8 5:48 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, September 16 9:43 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, September 24 2:28 PM

Also in September

  • Partial solar eclipse Tuesday, September 1, 9:08 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Wednesday, September 16 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–5, September 28–30.

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).

August September 2054 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
New Moon
9:20 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 8:00 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 8:40 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:59 AM
Set: 9:53 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:08 AM
Set: 10:30 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:14 PM
Set: 11:08 PM
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:18 PM
Set: 11:49 PM
8 Tuesday
First Quarter
5:48 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:18 PM
Set: –
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: 12:32 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:04 PM
Set: 1:18 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:49 PM
Set: 2:08 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:31 PM
Set: 3:00 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:08 PM
Set: 3:54 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:42 PM
Set: 4:49 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
16 Wednesday
Full Moon
9:43 PM
Harvest Moon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:43 PM
Set: 6:41 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 7:38 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:41 PM
Set: 8:35 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:12 PM
Set: 9:33 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 10:32 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:21 PM
Set: 11:32 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:01 PM
Set: 12:32 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:48 PM
Set: 1:33 PM
24 Thursday
Last Quarter
2:28 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:32 PM
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:41 AM
Set: 3:28 PM
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:41 AM
Set: 4:20 PM
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:46 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:56 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:08 AM
Set: 6:31 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:21 AM
Set: 7:09 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday