Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, October 2 2:51 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, October 10 6:29 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, October 18 4:21 AM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, October 25 2:30 AM

Also in October

  • Rosh Hashanah Thursday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Saturday, October 14 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Thursday, October 19 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 84% lit, 0 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Tuesday, October 31 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 1–7, October 28–31.

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 2062 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:04 AM
Set: 6:41 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
New Moon
2:51 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:16 AM
Set: 7:04 PM
Dark night
3 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:27 AM
Set: 7:28 PM
Dark night
4 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 7:55 PM
Dark night
5 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:48 AM
Set: 8:26 PM
Dark night
6 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:56 AM
Set: 9:03 PM
Dark night
7 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 1:01 PM
Set: 9:47 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:58 PM
Set: 10:38 PM
9 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:48 PM
Set: 11:35 PM
10 Tuesday
First Quarter
6:29 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:29 PM
Set: –
11 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:03 PM
Set: 12:36 AM
12 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:31 PM
Set: 1:39 AM
13 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:55 PM
Set: 2:42 AM
14 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 3:45 AM
15 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:38 PM
Set: 4:48 AM
16 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:59 PM
Set: 5:51 AM
17 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:21 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
18 Wednesday
Full Moon
4:21 AM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:47 PM
Set: 8:05 AM
19 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 9:17 AM
20 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:55 PM
Set: 10:31 AM
21 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:42 PM
Set: 11:45 AM
22 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:42 PM
Set: 12:54 PM
23 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:51 PM
Set: 1:54 PM
24 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:43 PM
25 Wednesday
Last Quarter
2:30 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:06 AM
Set: 3:21 PM
26 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:22 AM
Set: 3:53 PM
27 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:37 AM
Set: 4:19 PM
28 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:49 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:59 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 5:30 PM
Dark night
31 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:19 AM
Set: 5:55 PM
Dark night
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday