Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, October 4 6:57 AM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, October 12 10:46 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, October 19 4:49 PM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, October 26 8:27 AM

Also in October

  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 98% lit, 0 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 1–9, October 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).

September October 1937 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:33 AM
Set: 4:33 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:37 AM
Set: 5:01 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 5:30 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
New Moon
6:57 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:42 AM
Set: 5:59 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:43 AM
Set: 7:04 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:41 AM
Set: 7:41 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 16% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:37 AM
Set: 8:23 PM
Dark night
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:29 AM
Set: 9:09 PM
Dark night
10 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:17 PM
Set: 10:00 PM
11 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 10:55 PM
12 Tuesday
First Quarter
10:46 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: 11:53 PM
13 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:15 PM
Set: –
14 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:47 PM
Set: 12:53 AM
15 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:18 PM
Set: 1:55 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:48 PM
Set: 3:00 AM
17 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:19 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
18 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 5:15 AM
19 Tuesday
Full Moon
4:49 PM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:29 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
20 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:10 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
21 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 8:53 AM
22 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:55 PM
Set: 10:03 AM
23 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 8:58 PM
Set: 11:07 AM
24 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:04 PM
Set: 12:03 PM
25 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:13 PM
Set: 12:50 PM
26 Tuesday
Last Quarter
8:27 AM
Visible: 48% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:30 PM
27 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:20 AM
Set: 2:05 PM
28 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:26 AM
Set: 2:36 PM
29 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 3:04 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 3:32 PM
Dark night
31 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:33 AM
Set: 4:01 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday