Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, April 4 2:15 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, April 11 9:32 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, April 18 1:42 PM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, April 26 3:33 PM

Also in April

  • Islamic New Year 1421 AH Thursday, April 6 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Passover Thursday, April 20 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 89% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Easter Monday, April 23 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–6, April 27–30.

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 2000 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:54 AM
Set: 3:47 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:27 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:58 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
New Moon
2:15 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:29 AM
Set: 8:02 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:01 AM
Set: 9:11 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1421 AH
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:35 AM
Set: 10:21 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:12 AM
Set: 11:31 PM
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:55 AM
Set: –
9 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 29% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 12:40 AM
10 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 1:46 AM
11 Tuesday
First Quarter
9:32 AM
Visible: 51% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:40 PM
Set: 2:45 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:45 PM
Set: 3:38 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:53 PM
Set: 4:23 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:00 PM
Set: 5:02 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:06 PM
Set: 5:37 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:11 PM
Set: 6:09 AM
17 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:15 PM
Set: 6:39 AM
18 Tuesday
Full Moon
1:42 PM
Pink Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:17 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:18 PM
Set: 7:38 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 8:10 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:17 PM
Set: 8:44 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:22 AM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 78% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:13 AM
Set: 10:03 AM
24 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:05 AM
Set: 10:49 AM
25 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:53 AM
Set: 11:40 AM
26 Wednesday
Last Quarter
3:33 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:37 AM
Set: 12:34 PM
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 1:31 PM
Dark night
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 2:31 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:25 AM
Set: 3:33 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:57 AM
Set: 4:37 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday