Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Sunday, October 7 9:30 AM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, October 14 10:51 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, October 21 2:48 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, October 28 10:14 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 3 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Saturday, October 6 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Monday, October 8 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 0% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Sunday, October 21 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 18–25.

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 2063 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:43 PM
Set: 1:35 AM
2 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:10 PM
Set: 2:38 AM
3 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 3:39 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:53 PM
Set: 4:40 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:13 PM
Set: 5:39 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:33 PM
Set: 6:39 AM
7 Sunday
Full Moon
9:30 AM
Harvest Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:54 PM
Set: 7:39 AM
8 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:17 PM
Set: 8:42 AM
9 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:45 PM
Set: 9:46 AM
10 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:19 PM
Set: 10:53 AM
11 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:02 PM
Set: 11:59 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:54 PM
Set: 1:03 PM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 2:01 PM
14 Sunday
Last Quarter
10:51 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:51 PM
15 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:06 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
16 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:21 AM
Set: 4:06 PM
17 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:37 AM
Set: 4:36 PM
18 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:53 AM
Set: 5:02 PM
Dark night
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 5:28 PM
Dark night
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:24 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
21 Sunday
New Moon
2:48 PM
Orionids meteor shower
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 6:23 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:58 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:14 AM
Set: 7:35 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:27 AM
Set: 8:23 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:31 PM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:25 PM
Set: 10:19 PM
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:08 PM
Set: 11:23 PM
28 Sunday
First Quarter
10:14 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:43 PM
Set: –
29 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:12 PM
Set: 12:27 AM
30 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:36 PM
Set: 1:29 AM
31 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:57 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday