Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Saturday, October 1 6:44 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, October 9 4:38 AM Hunter's Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, October 16 4:25 AM
  • New Moon Sunday, October 23 3:42 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, October 31 2:44 AM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Saturday, October 8 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Monday, October 10 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 6% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Diwali Saturday, October 22 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Ramadan begins Monday, October 24 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: October 19–27.

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 1938 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday
29 Thursday
30 Friday
1 Saturday
First Quarter
6:44 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 11:55 PM
2 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: –
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 70% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:00 PM
Set: 12:50 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:32 PM
Set: 1:47 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 2:45 AM
6 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:31 PM
Set: 3:44 AM
7 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:01 PM
Set: 4:44 AM
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:32 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
9 Sunday
Full Moon
4:38 AM
Hunter's Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:05 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:43 PM
Set: 7:55 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:25 PM
Set: 9:01 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:14 PM
Set: 10:06 AM
13 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:09 PM
Set: 11:08 AM
14 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 12:06 PM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:16 PM
Set: 12:58 PM
16 Sunday
Last Quarter
4:25 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:43 PM
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:24 AM
Set: 2:24 PM
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:33 AM
Set: 3:00 PM
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:42 AM
Set: 3:34 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:50 AM
Set: 4:07 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:56 AM
Set: 4:40 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waning crescent
Diwali
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:03 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
New Moon
3:42 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:07 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:10 AM
Set: 6:31 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 6% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:10 AM
Set: 7:14 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:05 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:56 AM
Set: 8:52 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 9:45 PM
29 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 10:39 PM
30 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:57 PM
Set: 11:35 PM
31 Monday
First Quarter
2:44 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:30 PM
Set: –
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday