Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Saturday, October 7 11:12 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 14 6:47 PM
  • New Moon Saturday, October 21 11:09 PM
  • First Quarter Monday, October 30 1:41 AM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Monday, October 2 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Friday, October 6 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 7 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 1% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Saturday, October 21, 11:13 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Diwali Saturday, 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 18–27.

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 1911 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:16 PM
Set: –
2 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:54 PM
Set: 12:18 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:26 PM
Set: 1:21 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:54 PM
Set: 2:26 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 3:33 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:42 PM
Set: 4:39 AM
7 Saturday
Full Moon
11:12 PM
Harvest Moon
Sukkot
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 5:47 AM
8 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:29 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
9 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:56 PM
Set: 8:09 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:28 PM
Set: 9:24 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:08 PM
Set: 10:41 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 8:58 PM
Set: 11:56 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 9:58 PM
Set: 1:06 PM
14 Saturday
Last Quarter
6:47 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:07 PM
Set: 2:05 PM
15 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:53 PM
16 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:20 AM
Set: 3:31 PM
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:35 AM
Set: 4:02 PM
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:46 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:56 AM
Set: 4:52 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:03 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
New Moon
11:09 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 5:36 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:14 AM
Set: 6:00 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 6:27 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:25 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:28 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:29 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:23 PM
Set: 9:08 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:11 PM
Set: 10:05 PM
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:51 PM
Set: 11:06 PM
30 Monday
First Quarter
1:41 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: –
31 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:54 PM
Set: 12:09 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday