Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Monday, August 7 2:13 PM Sturgeon Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, August 14 9:17 PM
  • New Moon Monday, August 21 2:32 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, August 29 4:14 AM

Also in August

  • Partial lunar eclipse Monday, August 7, 2:21 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 74% lit, 1 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total solar eclipse Monday, August 21, 2:31 PM visible from Columbus as a partial eclipse, 86.5% of the Sun covered

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 18–26.

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 2017 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:57 PM
Set: 1:45 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:51 PM
Set: 2:22 AM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:43 PM
Set: 3:02 AM
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:33 PM
Set: 3:46 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 4:35 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:02 PM
Set: 5:28 AM
7 Monday
Full Moon
2:13 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:41 PM
Set: 6:24 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:17 PM
Set: 7:24 AM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:51 PM
Set: 8:25 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:24 PM
Set: 9:27 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:56 PM
Set: 10:31 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:29 PM
Set: 11:35 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 12:41 PM
14 Monday
Last Quarter
9:17 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:05 AM
Set: 1:48 PM
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 43% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:44 AM
Set: 2:55 PM
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 4:02 PM
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:18 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:15 AM
Set: 6:05 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 6:58 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:25 AM
Set: 7:45 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
New Moon
2:32 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 8:26 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:41 AM
Set: 9:03 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:46 AM
Set: 9:36 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:50 AM
Set: 10:08 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:52 AM
Set: 10:39 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:52 AM
Set: 11:11 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:50 PM
Set: 11:44 PM
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 44% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: –
29 Tuesday
First Quarter
4:14 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:42 PM
Set: 12:19 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:35 PM
Set: 12:58 AM
31 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:26 PM
Set: 1:40 AM
1 Friday
2 Saturday