Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Wednesday, August 5 7:39 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Thursday, August 13 7:56 PM
  • New Moon Friday, August 21 7:25 AM
  • First Quarter Thursday, August 27 11:53 PM

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 66% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total solar eclipse Friday, August 21, 5:46 AM partly visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 2.4% of the Sun covered
  • Eid al-Fitr Saturday, August 22 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 18–26.

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 1914 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:41 PM
Set: 12:35 AM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:43 PM
Set: 1:28 AM
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:35 PM
Set: 2:31 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:16 PM
Set: 3:40 AM
5 Wednesday
Full Moon
7:39 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:48 PM
Set: 4:51 AM
6 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:15 PM
Set: 6:01 AM
7 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:38 PM
Set: 7:07 AM
8 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:58 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
9 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:18 PM
Set: 9:12 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:38 PM
Set: 10:13 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:00 PM
Set: 11:13 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:25 PM
Set: 12:14 PM
13 Thursday
Last Quarter
7:56 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 10:54 PM
Set: 1:16 PM
14 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 11:29 PM
Set: 2:19 PM
15 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:21 PM
16 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:13 AM
Set: 4:20 PM
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:06 AM
Set: 5:12 PM
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:09 AM
Set: 5:57 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 6:34 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
New Moon
7:25 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 5:47 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:02 AM
Set: 7:59 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:16 AM
Set: 8:23 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 8:49 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:47 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:04 PM
Set: 9:52 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
First Quarter
11:53 PM
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:21 PM
Set: 10:33 PM
28 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:33 PM
Set: 11:23 PM
29 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:38 PM
Set: –
30 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:32 PM
Set: 12:23 AM
31 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:15 PM
Set: 1:29 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday