Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Monday, August 2 4:27 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, August 10 5:50 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 17 9:17 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 24 4:39 PM Sturgeon Moon

Also in August

  • Annular solar eclipse Tuesday, August 10, 5:52 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 3% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Thursday, August 12 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Tuesday, August 24, 4:27 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 7–16.

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 1915 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 10:43 PM
Set: 12:10 PM
2 Monday
Last Quarter
4:27 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:11 PM
Set: 1:13 PM
3 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 11:43 PM
Set: 2:15 PM
4 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:16 PM
5 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:21 AM
Set: 4:13 PM
6 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 1:07 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
7 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 2:00 AM
Set: 5:52 PM
Dark night
8 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 3:00 AM
Set: 6:31 PM
Dark night
9 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 4:04 AM
Set: 7:04 PM
Dark night
10 Tuesday
New Moon
5:50 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:10 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
11 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:16 AM
Set: 7:58 PM
Dark night
12 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:23 AM
Set: 8:22 PM
Dark night
13 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:30 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
14 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:38 AM
Set: 9:10 PM
Dark night
15 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 9:36 PM
Dark night
16 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:01 PM
Set: 10:08 PM
Dark night
17 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:17 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:16 PM
Set: 10:46 PM
18 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:30 PM
Set: 11:34 PM
19 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:40 PM
Set: –
20 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:40 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
21 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:30 PM
Set: 1:42 AM
22 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:10 PM
Set: 2:56 AM
23 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:43 PM
Set: 4:12 AM
24 Tuesday
Full Moon
4:39 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:10 PM
Set: 5:26 AM
25 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:35 PM
Set: 6:36 AM
26 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:58 PM
Set: 7:44 AM
27 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:20 PM
Set: 8:50 AM
28 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:44 PM
Set: 9:54 AM
29 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:11 PM
Set: 10:58 AM
30 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 68% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 9:42 PM
Set: 12:01 PM
31 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 1:03 PM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday