Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, February 2 6:13 PM
  • Full Moon Monday, February 9 9:50 AM Snow MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Monday, February 16 4:39 PM
  • New Moon Tuesday, February 24 8:37 PM

Also in February

  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Monday, February 9, 9:38 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Lantern Festival Monday, February 9 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: February 18–27.

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).

January February 2009 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:23 AM
Set: –
2 Monday
First Quarter
6:13 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 10:54 AM
Set: 12:44 AM
3 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 11:32 AM
Set: 1:56 AM
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:21 PM
Set: 3:09 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:21 PM
Set: 4:18 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:32 PM
Set: 5:20 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:49 PM
Set: 6:11 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:08 PM
Set: 6:53 AM
9 Monday
Full Moon
9:50 AM
Snow Moon
Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lantern Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:25 PM
Set: 7:27 AM
10 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:39 PM
Set: 7:56 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:59 PM
Set: 8:47 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:06 PM
Set: 9:12 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:39 AM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:12 AM
Set: 10:09 AM
16 Monday
Last Quarter
4:39 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:16 AM
Set: 10:43 AM
17 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:18 AM
Set: 11:24 AM
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:15 AM
Set: 12:10 PM
Dark night
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:06 AM
Set: 1:03 PM
Dark night
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:50 AM
Set: 2:01 PM
Dark night
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:28 AM
Set: 3:02 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:00 AM
Set: 4:05 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:27 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
New Moon
8:37 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 6:12 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:38 AM
Set: 8:20 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:02 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:27 AM
Set: 10:36 PM