Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, August 6 9:03 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, August 15 1:15 AM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, August 22 2:52 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, August 29 6:21 AM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 11–12 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 93% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 1–3, August 26–31.

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 2000 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 10:12 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:23 AM
Set: 10:47 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:33 AM
Set: 11:19 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:40 AM
Set: 11:49 PM
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: –
6 Sunday
First Quarter
9:03 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: 12:18 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:47 PM
Set: 12:49 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 66% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:46 PM
Set: 1:21 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:43 PM
Set: 1:57 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 2:36 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:27 PM
Set: 3:20 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:12 PM
Set: 4:09 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:54 PM
Set: 5:02 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:30 PM
Set: 5:58 AM
15 Tuesday
Full Moon
1:15 AM
Sturgeon Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:04 PM
Set: 6:56 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:34 PM
Set: 7:56 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:03 PM
Set: 8:56 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:31 PM
Set: 9:57 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:00 PM
Set: 10:59 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:30 PM
Set: 12:02 PM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:08 PM
22 Tuesday
Last Quarter
2:52 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:04 AM
Set: 2:15 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:43 AM
Set: 3:23 PM
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 29% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 4:30 PM
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:22 AM
Set: 5:33 PM
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:24 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:32 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:45 AM
Set: 8:03 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
New Moon
6:21 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:58 AM
Set: 8:41 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:10 AM
Set: 9:15 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: 9:46 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday