Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Sunday, August 2 1:59 AM
  • First Quarter Monday, August 10 4:51 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, August 16 11:17 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, August 23 4:36 PM
  • New Moon Monday, August 31 6:02 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 74% lit, 3 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Sunday, August 16, 11:23 PM visible from Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Monday, August 31, 5:55 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–8, August 28–31.

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).

July August 1970 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
New Moon
1:59 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:42 AM
Set: 9:11 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:44 AM
Set: 9:34 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:44 AM
Set: 9:54 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:43 AM
Set: 10:13 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:43 AM
Set: 10:33 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 10:54 PM
Dark night
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:45 PM
Set: 11:18 PM
Dark night
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:51 PM
Set: 11:46 PM
10 Monday
First Quarter
4:51 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:59 PM
Set: –
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:08 PM
Set: 12:21 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:16 PM
Set: 1:05 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 83% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 6:16 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 7:08 PM
Set: 3:11 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:50 PM
Set: 4:29 AM
16 Sunday
Full Moon
11:17 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:24 PM
Set: 5:51 AM
17 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:53 PM
Set: 7:12 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:20 PM
Set: 8:31 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:45 PM
Set: 9:48 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 11:03 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:40 PM
Set: 12:17 PM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:13 PM
Set: 1:30 PM
23 Sunday
Last Quarter
4:36 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:52 PM
Set: 2:40 PM
24 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:46 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:38 AM
Set: 4:44 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:31 AM
Set: 5:34 PM
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:30 AM
Set: 6:15 PM
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 6:48 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:37 AM
Set: 7:39 PM
Dark night
31 Monday
New Moon
6:02 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 8:00 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday