Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, September 5 12:29 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, September 13 3:39 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, September 20 9:30 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, September 27 3:54 PM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Tuesday, September 12 Chinese calendar
  • Rosh Hashanah Saturday, September 30 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 1–2, September 24–30.

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).

August September 2000 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:27 AM
Set: 10:16 PM
Dark night
2 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:32 AM
Set: 10:47 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:35 PM
Set: 11:19 PM
4 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:36 PM
Set: 11:54 PM
5 Tuesday
First Quarter
12:29 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:34 PM
Set: –
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:30 PM
Set: 12:33 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:22 PM
Set: 1:15 AM
8 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:09 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
9 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 2:54 AM
10 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:30 PM
Set: 3:49 AM
11 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:04 PM
Set: 4:47 AM
12 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
13 Wednesday
Full Moon
3:39 PM
Harvest Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:05 PM
Set: 6:47 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:34 PM
Set: 7:49 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:03 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
16 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:33 PM
Set: 9:55 AM
17 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:05 PM
Set: 11:01 AM
18 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:42 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
19 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:25 PM
Set: 1:15 PM
20 Wednesday
Last Quarter
9:30 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:21 PM
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:14 AM
Set: 3:25 PM
22 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:12 AM
Set: 4:22 PM
23 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:16 AM
Set: 5:13 PM
24 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:26 AM
Set: 5:58 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:37 AM
Set: 6:36 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:48 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
27 Wednesday
New Moon
3:54 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 7:43 PM
Dark night
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:07 AM
Set: 8:13 PM
Dark night
29 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 8:44 PM
Dark night
30 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:19 AM
Set: 9:16 PM
Dark night