Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, October 2 4:43 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, October 9 2:44 PM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 16 6:33 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, October 24 5:27 AM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Monday, October 4 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Saturday, October 9, 2:52 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 9 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 8% lit, 9 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Saturday, October 23 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Annular solar eclipse Sunday, October 24, 5:22 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 20–29.

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 2060 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:18 PM
Set: 11:04 PM
2 Saturday
First Quarter
4:43 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: –
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 12:01 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:43 PM
Set: 1:05 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 2:15 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 3:29 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:15 PM
Set: 4:44 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:41 PM
Set: 5:59 AM
9 Saturday
Full Moon
2:44 PM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:07 PM
Set: 7:16 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 8:35 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:09 PM
Set: 9:55 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:49 PM
Set: 11:16 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:37 PM
Set: 12:34 PM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:35 PM
Set: 1:44 PM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:40 PM
Set: 2:43 PM
16 Saturday
Last Quarter
6:33 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:30 PM
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:48 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:56 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:01 AM
Set: 5:02 PM
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:05 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:06 AM
Set: 5:44 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:05 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:05 AM
Set: 6:23 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
New Moon
5:27 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:05 AM
Set: 6:46 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:06 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:08 AM
Set: 7:40 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 11:11 AM
Set: 8:16 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 12:11 PM
Set: 9:00 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 1:07 PM
Set: 9:52 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:57 PM
Set: 10:52 PM
31 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:40 PM
Set: 11:59 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday