Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, April 1 5:04 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 9 10:24 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, April 17 6:40 AM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 24 3:46 AM

Also in April

  • Partial lunar eclipse Monday, April 1, 5:14 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 2 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 7 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Total solar eclipse Wednesday, April 17, 5:53 AM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 16.9% of the Sun covered
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 20–21 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 20% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 9–19.

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).

March April 1912 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Full Moon
5:04 PM
Pink Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:56 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
2 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:06 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
3 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:15 PM
Set: 7:01 AM
4 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 7:28 AM
5 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:31 PM
Set: 8:00 AM
6 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:37 AM
7 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:33 AM
Set: 9:20 AM
8 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:30 AM
Set: 10:11 AM
9 Tuesday
Last Quarter
10:24 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:18 AM
Set: 11:08 AM
Dark night
10 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:59 AM
Set: 12:09 PM
Dark night
11 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 1:12 PM
Dark night
12 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:01 AM
Set: 2:16 PM
Dark night
13 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:25 AM
Set: 3:19 PM
Dark night
14 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 4:23 PM
Dark night
15 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:09 AM
Set: 5:27 PM
Dark night
16 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:30 AM
Set: 6:34 PM
Dark night
17 Wednesday
New Moon
6:40 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:54 AM
Set: 7:44 PM
Dark night
18 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 8:57 PM
Dark night
19 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 10:12 PM
Dark night
20 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 7:32 AM
Set: 11:26 PM
21 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 8:22 AM
Set: –
22 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:24 AM
Set: 12:35 AM
23 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 1:33 AM
24 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:46 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:50 AM
Set: 2:19 AM
25 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:06 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
26 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:19 PM
Set: 3:27 AM
27 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 3:53 AM
28 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 4:16 AM
29 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:49 PM
Set: 4:39 AM
30 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:57 PM
Set: 5:03 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday