The Moon Today
Tonight is a dark night for stargazing: no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness.
Dates and Times of the Phases
- Full Moon Monday, November 7 5:24 PM Beaver Moon
- Last Quarter Monday, November 14 11:21 AM
- New Moon Monday, November 21 7:05 PM
- First Quarter Tuesday, November 29 11:00 PM
Also in November
- Total lunar eclipse Monday, November 7, 5:26 PM visible from Columbus
- Leonids meteor shower peak on the night of November 16–17 up to 15 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 21% lit, 8 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
- Partial solar eclipse Monday, November 21, 6:52 PM not visible from Columbus
- Eid al-Fitr Wednesday, November 23 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: November 17–25.
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).
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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30 Sunday
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31 Monday
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1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 12:32 AM
|
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 72% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:30 PM
Set: 1:30 AM
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3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: 2:29 AM
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4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 3:29 PM
Set: 3:29 AM
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5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:01 PM
Set: 4:32 AM
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6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:37 PM
Set: 5:37 AM
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7 Monday
Full Moon
5:24 PM
Beaver Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:18 PM
Set: 6:44 AM
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8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:06 PM
Set: 7:51 AM
|
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:00 PM
Set: 8:57 AM
|
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 9:58 AM
|
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:08 PM
Set: 10:53 AM
|
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:16 PM
Set: 11:42 AM
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13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:26 PM
Set: 12:24 PM
|
14 Monday
Last Quarter
11:21 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:02 PM
|
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:34 AM
Set: 1:36 PM
|
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Leonids meteor shower
Visible: 28% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:41 AM
Set: 2:09 PM
|
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:47 AM
Set: 2:41 PM
Dark night
|
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:51 AM
Set: 3:14 PM
Dark night
|
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:55 AM
Set: 3:49 PM
Dark night
|
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20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:58 AM
Set: 4:26 PM
Dark night
|
21 Monday
New Moon
7:05 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:58 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
|
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:55 AM
Set: 5:53 PM
Dark night
|
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:48 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
|
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 7:35 PM
Dark night
|
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:18 AM
Set: 8:29 PM
Dark night
|
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 9:25 PM
|
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27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:29 AM
Set: 10:21 PM
|
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:00 PM
Set: 11:18 PM
|
29 Tuesday
First Quarter
11:00 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:30 PM
Set: –
|
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:58 PM
Set: 12:15 AM
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1 Thursday
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2 Friday
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3 Saturday
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