Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, September 1 5:05 AM
  • First Quarter Friday, September 9 7:51 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, September 16 3:08 PM Harvest MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, September 23 5:59 AM
  • New Moon Friday, September 30 8:13 PM

Also in September

  • Annular solar eclipse Thursday, September 1, 5:07 AM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Adha Sunday, September 11 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Thursday, September 15 Chinese calendar
  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Friday, September 16, 2:54 PM not visible from Columbus

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

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
New Moon
5:05 AM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:11 AM
Set: 8:17 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:10 AM
Set: 8:48 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:08 AM
Set: 9:18 PM
Dark night
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:05 AM
Set: 9:48 PM
Dark night
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:01 AM
Set: 10:20 PM
Dark night
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:57 AM
Set: 10:52 PM
Dark night
7 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 33% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:52 PM
Set: 11:28 PM
8 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: –
9 Friday
First Quarter
7:51 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:39 PM
Set: 12:07 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:31 PM
Set: 12:51 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Eid al-Adha
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:20 PM
Set: 1:40 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:06 PM
Set: 2:35 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:50 PM
Set: 3:34 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:31 PM
Set: 4:38 AM
15 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:09 PM
Set: 5:45 AM
16 Friday
Full Moon
3:08 PM
Harvest Moon
Supermoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:47 PM
Set: 6:54 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:25 PM
Set: 8:04 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:03 PM
Set: 9:16 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:44 PM
Set: 10:28 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:28 PM
Set: 11:38 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:16 PM
Set: 12:46 PM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:50 PM
23 Friday
Last Quarter
5:59 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:08 AM
Set: 2:49 PM
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:02 AM
Set: 4:28 PM
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:02 AM
Set: 5:09 PM
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 5:45 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:03 AM
Set: 6:18 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:01 AM
Set: 6:50 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
New Moon
8:13 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:59 AM
Set: 7:20 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday