Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, September 3 1:05 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, September 11 3:09 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, September 18 11:53 PM Harvest MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, September 25 3:55 PM

Also in September

  • Ramadan begins Monday, September 5 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Sunday, September 18 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–9, September 29–30.

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).

August September 1910 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:22 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:31 AM
Set: 7:00 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
New Moon
1:05 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:38 AM
Set: 7:26 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:43 AM
Set: 7:50 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:46 AM
Set: 8:12 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:47 AM
Set: 8:34 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: 8:56 PM
Dark night
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:48 AM
Set: 9:20 PM
Dark night
9 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:48 AM
Set: 9:48 PM
Dark night
10 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: 10:20 PM
11 Sunday
First Quarter
3:09 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 10:59 PM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:49 PM
Set: 11:46 PM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:43 PM
Set: –
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:31 PM
Set: 12:42 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
16 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:48 PM
Set: 2:54 AM
17 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:19 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
18 Sunday
Full Moon
11:53 PM
Harvest Moon
Supermoon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:47 PM
Set: 5:19 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:14 PM
Set: 6:32 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:41 PM
Set: 7:47 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 9:02 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:42 PM
Set: 10:19 AM
23 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 74% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:21 PM
Set: 11:36 AM
24 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:07 PM
Set: 12:51 PM
25 Sunday
Last Quarter
3:55 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:02 PM
Set: 2:00 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:00 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:05 AM
Set: 3:50 PM
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:12 AM
Set: 4:30 PM
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 5:03 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:28 AM
Set: 5:30 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday