The Moon Today
Tonight is a dark night for stargazing: no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness.
Dates and Times of the Phases
- New Moon Tuesday, November 1 8:56 PM
- First Quarter Thursday, November 10 12:29 AM
- Full Moon Wednesday, November 16 7:25 PM Beaver MoonSupermoon
- Last Quarter Wednesday, November 23 1:14 PM
Also in November
- Partial solar eclipse Tuesday, November 1, 9:08 PM not visible from Columbus
- Diwali Tuesday, November 1 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
- Total lunar eclipse Wednesday, November 16, 7:21 PM visible from Columbus
- Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 16–17 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 100% lit, 0 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: November 1–6, November 27–30.
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).
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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30 Sunday
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31 Monday
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1 Tuesday
New Moon
8:56 PM
Partial solar eclipse Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
|
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
|
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
|
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:32 AM
Set: 6:54 PM
Dark night
|
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
|
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6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:29 AM
Set: 8:22 PM
Dark night
|
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:20 PM
Set: 9:18 PM
|
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:04 PM
Set: 10:19 PM
|
9 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:42 PM
Set: 11:25 PM
|
10 Thursday
First Quarter
12:29 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:15 PM
Set: –
|
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:44 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
|
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 1:42 AM
|
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13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:37 PM
Set: 2:54 AM
|
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:03 PM
Set: 4:07 AM
|
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:32 PM
Set: 5:23 AM
|
16 Wednesday
Full Moon
7:25 PM
Beaver Moon Supermoon
Total lunar eclipse Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:06 PM
Set: 6:42 AM
|
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
|
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:38 PM
Set: 9:24 AM
|
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:39 PM
Set: 10:37 AM
|
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20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 11:39 AM
|
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 12:29 PM
|
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:09 PM
Set: 1:08 PM
|
23 Wednesday
Last Quarter
1:14 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:39 PM
|
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:17 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
|
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:21 AM
Set: 2:28 PM
|
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:22 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
|
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27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:22 AM
Set: 3:10 PM
Dark night
|
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:22 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
|
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:22 AM
Set: 3:55 PM
Dark night
|
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:23 AM
Set: 4:23 PM
Dark night
|
1 Thursday
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2 Friday
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3 Saturday
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