Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, September 5 7:19 AM Corn Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, September 12 6:20 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, September 20 7:12 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, September 27 9:13 PM

Also in September

  • Total lunar eclipse Monday, September 5, 7:21 AM partly visible from Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Tuesday, September 20, 7:58 PM partly visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 22.4% of the Sun covered
  • Rosh Hashanah Thursday, September 22 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 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).

August September 1960 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
2 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:08 PM
Set: 3:39 AM
3 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:54 PM
Set: 4:48 AM
4 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:35 PM
Set: 5:57 AM
5 Monday
Full Moon
7:19 AM
Corn Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 7:07 AM
6 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:48 PM
Set: 8:15 AM
7 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:22 PM
Set: 9:21 AM
8 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:57 PM
Set: 10:25 AM
9 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:32 PM
Set: 11:27 AM
10 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:09 PM
Set: 12:26 PM
11 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:49 PM
Set: 1:23 PM
12 Monday
Last Quarter
6:20 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:17 PM
13 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:32 AM
Set: 3:07 PM
14 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:18 AM
Set: 3:54 PM
15 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:08 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
16 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:00 AM
Set: 5:16 PM
17 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:55 AM
Set: 5:53 PM
Dark night
18 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:52 AM
Set: 6:28 PM
Dark night
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:51 AM
Set: 7:01 PM
Dark night
20 Tuesday
New Moon
7:12 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:51 AM
Set: 7:33 PM
Dark night
21 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:53 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
22 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:56 AM
Set: 8:40 PM
Dark night
23 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:00 AM
Set: 9:16 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 9:56 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:10 PM
Set: 10:41 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:14 PM
Set: 11:31 PM
27 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:13 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:15 PM
Set: –
28 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 12:27 AM
29 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 1:29 AM
30 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:49 PM
Set: 2:34 AM
1 Saturday