Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, September 1 10:01 PM
  • First Quarter Sunday, September 9 10:48 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, September 17 10:26 AM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Monday, September 24 10:41 AM

Also in September

  • Total solar eclipse Saturday, September 1, 9:55 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Mid-Autumn Festival Sunday, September 16 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1–6, September 28–30.

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).

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
New Moon
10:01 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:22 AM
Set: 7:57 PM
Dark night
2 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:31 AM
Set: 8:33 PM
Dark night
3 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 9:08 PM
Dark night
4 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:42 AM
Set: 9:41 PM
Dark night
5 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 10:14 PM
Dark night
6 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 23% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
Dark night
7 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:43 PM
Set: 11:24 PM
8 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: –
9 Sunday
First Quarter
10:48 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:33 PM
Set: 12:03 AM
10 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:24 PM
Set: 12:45 AM
11 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:11 PM
Set: 1:30 AM
12 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:55 PM
Set: 2:19 AM
13 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:36 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
14 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:13 PM
Set: 4:08 AM
15 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:49 PM
Set: 5:06 AM
16 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:22 PM
Set: 6:06 AM
17 Monday
Full Moon
10:26 AM
Harvest Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:55 PM
Set: 7:08 AM
18 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:28 PM
Set: 8:11 AM
19 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:03 PM
Set: 9:15 AM
20 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:39 PM
Set: 10:21 AM
21 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:20 PM
Set: 11:27 AM
22 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:05 PM
Set: 12:34 PM
23 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:56 PM
Set: 1:38 PM
24 Monday
Last Quarter
10:41 AM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:39 PM
25 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 38% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:53 AM
Set: 3:36 PM
26 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:54 AM
Set: 4:27 PM
27 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:59 AM
Set: 5:12 PM
28 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:06 AM
Set: 5:53 PM
Dark night
29 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:13 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
30 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:20 AM
Set: 7:04 PM
Dark night
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday