Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, October 3 3:31 AM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, October 11 8:39 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, October 18 9:25 AM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, October 25 12:49 AM

Also in October

  • Eid al-Fitr Tuesday, October 4 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Rosh Hashanah Tuesday, October 4 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Yom Kippur Thursday, October 13 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Tuesday, October 18 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 91% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 1–8, October 20, 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 1910 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 5:54 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:35 AM
Set: 6:16 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
New Moon
3:31 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 6:37 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:37 AM
Set: 6:59 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 7:22 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 7:49 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:39 AM
Set: 8:19 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:40 AM
Set: 8:55 PM
Dark night
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:39 PM
Set: 9:38 PM
10 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:35 PM
Set: 10:29 PM
11 Tuesday
First Quarter
8:39 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:24 PM
Set: 11:28 PM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: –
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:44 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:16 PM
Set: 1:42 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:45 PM
Set: 2:53 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:39 PM
Set: 5:20 AM
18 Tuesday
Full Moon
9:25 AM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:07 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:38 PM
Set: 7:54 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 9:14 AM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 10:34 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 11:48 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 9:56 PM
Set: 12:54 PM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:03 PM
Set: 1:48 PM
25 Tuesday
Last Quarter
12:49 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:32 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:12 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:20 AM
Set: 3:35 PM
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:25 AM
Set: 4:00 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:28 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 4:43 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:29 AM
Set: 5:04 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday