Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, April 2 6:25 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, April 9 11:19 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, April 18 3:05 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, April 25 12:29 AM

Also in April

  • Passover Tuesday, April 10 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 15 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 10% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Thursday, April 26 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: April 19–26.

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).

March April 1990 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:20 AM
Set: 1:19 AM
2 Monday
First Quarter
6:25 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:28 PM
Set: 3:13 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 3:56 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:47 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:53 PM
Set: 4:59 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:57 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:59 PM
Set: 6:07 AM
9 Monday
Full Moon
11:19 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:00 PM
Set: 6:29 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:01 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:04 PM
Set: 7:47 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:22 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 12:03 AM
Set: 9:04 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:59 AM
Set: 9:53 AM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:48 AM
Set: 10:49 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:31 AM
Set: 11:50 AM
18 Wednesday
Last Quarter
3:05 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:08 AM
Set: 12:56 PM
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:40 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:08 AM
Set: 3:12 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 4:23 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:00 AM
Set: 5:36 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:27 AM
Set: 6:52 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 8:11 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
New Moon
12:29 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:31 AM
Set: 9:32 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:13 AM
Set: 10:51 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:05 AM
Set: –
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:06 AM
Set: 12:03 AM
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:15 AM
Set: 1:04 AM
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:27 AM
Set: 1:53 AM
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday