Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, October 2 11:33 PM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, October 9 2:04 PM Hunter's MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, October 16 5:06 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, October 24 9:30 PM

Also in October

  • Yom Kippur Saturday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Sukkot Thursday, October 10 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 20–21 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 11% lit, 8 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Annular solar eclipse Thursday, October 24, 9:35 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Diwali Thursday, October 24 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 20–29.

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).

September October 2041 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:52 PM
Set: 10:47 PM
2 Wednesday
First Quarter
11:33 PM
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:55 PM
Set: 11:45 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 56% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 3:51 PM
Set: –
4 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 67% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:38 PM
Set: 12:52 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Yom Kippur
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:17 PM
Set: 2:07 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:50 PM
Set: 3:24 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:45 PM
Set: 6:00 AM
9 Wednesday
Full Moon
2:04 PM
Hunter's Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 7:11 PM
Set: 7:17 AM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:39 PM
Set: 8:34 AM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 9:50 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 89% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:46 PM
Set: 11:06 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 9:29 PM
Set: 12:19 PM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:19 PM
Set: 1:25 PM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 2:23 PM
16 Wednesday
Last Quarter
5:06 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:10 PM
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:16 AM
Set: 3:49 PM
18 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:19 AM
Set: 4:21 PM
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:21 AM
Set: 4:47 PM
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:22 AM
Set: 5:10 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:22 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:22 AM
Set: 5:51 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:21 AM
Set: 6:11 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
New Moon
9:30 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:22 AM
Set: 6:33 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:25 AM
Set: 6:57 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 7:26 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 10:38 AM
Set: 8:01 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:45 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:49 PM
Set: 9:39 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 10:42 PM
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 2:36 PM
Set: 11:53 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday