Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Tuesday, October 5 2:41 PM Harvest MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, October 13 2:25 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, October 20 6:51 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, October 27 3:54 AM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Saturday, October 2 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Tuesday, October 5 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Thursday, October 7 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Diwali Wednesday, October 20 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 5% lit, 10 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 17–23.

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 2055 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:07 PM
Set: 4:22 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:36 PM
Set: 5:19 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:04 PM
Set: 6:16 AM
5 Tuesday
Full Moon
2:41 PM
Harvest Moon
Micromoon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:31 PM
Set: 7:13 AM
6 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:58 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
7 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:26 PM
Set: 9:06 AM
8 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 10:03 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:31 PM
Set: 11:01 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:10 PM
Set: 11:59 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 12:56 PM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 1:51 PM
13 Wednesday
Last Quarter
2:25 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:43 PM
14 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:42 AM
Set: 3:31 PM
15 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:46 AM
Set: 4:15 PM
16 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:53 AM
Set: 4:56 PM
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:04 AM
Set: 5:34 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:18 AM
Set: 6:10 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:32 AM
Set: 6:46 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
New Moon
6:51 AM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:47 AM
Set: 7:23 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:02 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:15 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:25 AM
Set: 9:32 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: 10:24 PM
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:28 PM
Set: 11:20 PM
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:18 PM
Set: –
27 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:54 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: 12:17 AM
28 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:38 PM
Set: 1:16 AM
29 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 2:15 AM
30 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
31 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 4:10 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday