Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 1 6:28 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, August 9 9:55 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, August 17 7:11 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, August 23 11:14 PM
  • First Quarter Thursday, August 31 11:19 AM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 94% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Friday, August 25 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 21–29.

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).

July August 1911 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
First Quarter
6:28 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:56 PM
Set: 11:33 PM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:59 PM
Set: 11:59 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:01 PM
Set: –
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:03 PM
Set: 12:31 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:01 PM
Set: 1:08 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:55 PM
Set: 1:52 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:42 PM
Set: 2:44 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:22 PM
Set: 3:42 AM
9 Wednesday
Full Moon
9:55 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:55 PM
Set: 4:45 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:24 PM
Set: 5:50 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:49 PM
Set: 6:56 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:12 PM
Set: 8:01 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:35 PM
Set: 9:07 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:58 PM
Set: 10:13 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:23 PM
Set: 11:21 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 12:32 PM
17 Thursday
Last Quarter
7:11 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 11:29 PM
Set: 1:46 PM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:01 PM
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:14 AM
Set: 4:14 PM
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:11 AM
Set: 5:19 PM
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:19 AM
Set: 6:13 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:34 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
New Moon
11:14 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 4:52 AM
Set: 7:30 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:08 AM
Set: 7:59 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:20 AM
Set: 8:24 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:29 AM
Set: 8:47 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 9:10 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:41 AM
Set: 9:33 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:46 AM
Set: 9:59 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: 10:29 PM
31 Thursday
First Quarter
11:19 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:52 PM
Set: 11:04 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday