Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, October 5 9:15 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, October 12 11:01 AM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 20 12:10 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, October 27 11:19 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Monday, October 8 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 13 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 40% lit, 5 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Saturday, October 27 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 1–2, October 24–31.

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 2057 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:39 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:51 AM
Set: 9:57 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:03 PM
Set: 10:43 PM
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:11 PM
Set: 11:37 PM
5 Friday
First Quarter
9:15 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: –
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 12:39 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:51 PM
Set: 1:47 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:29 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:01 PM
Set: 4:07 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 5:15 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 6:22 AM
12 Friday
Full Moon
11:01 AM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:23 PM
Set: 7:27 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:50 PM
Set: 8:31 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 9:34 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:51 PM
Set: 10:36 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:26 PM
Set: 11:37 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:07 PM
Set: 12:35 PM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 1:30 PM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:44 PM
Set: 2:20 PM
20 Saturday
Last Quarter
12:10 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:04 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:40 AM
Set: 3:43 PM
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:40 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:42 AM
Set: 4:49 PM
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:46 AM
Set: 5:17 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:51 AM
Set: 5:45 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:59 AM
Set: 6:13 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
New Moon
11:19 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:08 AM
Set: 6:42 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:20 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:35 AM
Set: 7:52 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 8:37 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 12:02 PM
Set: 9:30 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday