Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 7 9:31 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 14 1:22 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, August 21 10:04 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, August 29 11:55 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 96% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–5, August 26–31.

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 2057 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:18 AM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:20 AM
Set: 10:18 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:23 AM
Set: 10:46 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 11:14 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:32 AM
Set: 11:41 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:38 PM
Set: –
7 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:31 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 12:10 AM
8 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:57 PM
Set: 12:41 AM
9 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:09 PM
Set: 1:18 AM
10 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:20 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:27 PM
Set: 2:54 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:26 PM
Set: 3:56 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:16 PM
Set: 5:05 AM
14 Tuesday
Full Moon
1:22 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:57 PM
Set: 6:18 AM
15 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:32 PM
Set: 7:31 AM
16 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
17 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:31 PM
Set: 9:50 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:58 PM
Set: 10:56 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:24 PM
Set: 11:59 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:52 PM
Set: 1:01 PM
21 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:04 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:01 PM
22 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:23 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
23 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:57 AM
Set: 3:58 PM
24 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:36 AM
Set: 4:53 PM
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 5:44 PM
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:12 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:08 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:08 AM
Set: 7:47 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
New Moon
11:55 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:10 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:14 AM
Set: 8:49 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 9:17 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday