Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, April 7 4:32 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, April 15 3:45 AM Pink Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 22 3:53 AM
  • New Moon Tuesday, April 29 2:18 AM

Also in April

  • Total lunar eclipse Tuesday, April 15, 3:46 AM visible from Columbus
  • Passover Tuesday, April 15 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 20 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 45% lit, 5 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Tuesday, April 29, 2:03 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1, April 23–30.

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 2014 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:19 AM
Set: 10:18 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: 11:19 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: –
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:28 AM
Set: 12:17 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:17 AM
Set: 1:09 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:08 PM
Set: 1:57 AM
7 Monday
First Quarter
4:32 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 1:02 PM
Set: 2:39 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:56 PM
Set: 3:17 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:52 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:48 PM
Set: 4:24 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:46 PM
Set: 4:55 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 93% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:45 PM
Set: 5:25 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 5:56 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:47 PM
Set: 6:27 AM
15 Tuesday
Full Moon
3:45 AM
Pink Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:50 PM
Set: 7:02 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:54 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:57 PM
Set: 8:23 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:58 PM
Set: 9:11 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:06 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:54 AM
Set: 11:06 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:46 AM
Set: 12:11 PM
22 Tuesday
Last Quarter
3:53 AM
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:32 AM
Set: 1:18 PM
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:14 AM
Set: 2:26 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 3:34 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:28 AM
Set: 4:42 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:02 AM
Set: 5:49 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:37 AM
Set: 6:56 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:14 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
New Moon
2:18 AM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 9:04 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:34 AM
Set: 10:03 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday