Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Tuesday, September 3 1:20 PM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, September 10 5:26 AM Harvest MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, September 17 1:35 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, September 25 4:42 AM

Also in September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Tuesday, September 10 Chinese calendar
  • Eid al-Fitr Thursday, September 26 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Rosh Hashanah Thursday, September 26 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: September 1, September 21–30.

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).

August September 2041 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:41 PM
Set: 10:50 PM
Dark night
2 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 39% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 11:23 PM
3 Tuesday
First Quarter
1:20 PM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:55 PM
Set: –
4 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:02 PM
Set: 12:04 AM
5 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:04 PM
Set: 12:55 AM
6 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:58 PM
Set: 1:58 AM
7 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:44 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
8 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:21 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
9 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:53 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
10 Tuesday
Full Moon
5:26 AM
Harvest Moon
Supermoon
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:21 PM
Set: 7:12 AM
11 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:47 PM
Set: 8:30 AM
12 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 92% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:14 PM
Set: 9:46 AM
13 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:43 PM
Set: 11:01 AM
14 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:15 PM
Set: 12:16 PM
15 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 1:28 PM
16 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 56% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:37 PM
Set: 2:36 PM
17 Tuesday
Last Quarter
1:35 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 3:37 PM
18 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:29 AM
Set: 4:29 PM
19 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:26 AM
Set: 5:12 PM
20 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 19% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:26 AM
Set: 5:48 PM
21 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 12% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:29 AM
Set: 6:18 PM
Dark night
22 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:30 AM
Set: 6:43 PM
Dark night
23 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:31 AM
Set: 7:05 PM
Dark night
24 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:31 AM
Set: 7:25 PM
Dark night
25 Wednesday
New Moon
4:42 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:30 AM
Set: 7:45 PM
Dark night
26 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Rosh Hashanah
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:30 AM
Set: 8:06 PM
Dark night
27 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:31 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night
28 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:34 AM
Set: 8:54 PM
Dark night
29 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 11:39 AM
Set: 9:24 PM
Dark night
30 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 25% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:46 PM
Set: 10:01 PM
Dark night
1 Tuesday
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday
4 Friday
5 Saturday