Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, August 2 7:58 AM
  • First Quarter Friday, August 8 11:03 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, August 16 3:27 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, August 24 7:18 PM
  • New Moon Sunday, August 31 3:38 PM

Also in August

  • Ramadan begins Sunday, August 3 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 79% lit, 3 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Sunday, August 31, 3:52 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–7, August 20, August 29–31.

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).

July August 1913 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 3:59 AM
Set: 7:38 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
New Moon
7:58 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:18 AM
Set: 8:16 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 6:39 AM
Set: 8:46 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:58 AM
Set: 9:13 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 9:38 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:29 AM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
First Quarter
11:03 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:57 PM
Set: 10:59 PM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:10 PM
Set: 11:34 PM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:21 PM
Set: –
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:25 PM
Set: 12:16 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:21 PM
Set: 1:07 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:08 PM
Set: 2:05 AM
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:46 PM
Set: 3:08 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:16 PM
Set: 4:13 AM
16 Saturday
Full Moon
3:27 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:41 PM
Set: 5:17 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:03 PM
Set: 6:20 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:23 PM
Set: 7:20 AM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:42 PM
Set: 8:19 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:01 PM
Set: 9:18 AM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:21 PM
Set: 10:18 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 9:44 PM
Set: 11:20 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:12 PM
Set: 12:23 PM
24 Sunday
Last Quarter
7:18 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 10:47 PM
Set: 1:30 PM
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 11:30 PM
Set: 2:37 PM
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:41 PM
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:26 AM
Set: 4:39 PM
28 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 5:29 PM
29 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 2:49 AM
Set: 6:09 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:09 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
New Moon
3:38 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:29 AM
Set: 7:12 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday