Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Thursday, October 3 7:43 PM Harvest Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, October 12 12:24 AM
  • New Moon Friday, October 18 11:29 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, October 25 3:14 PM

Also in October

  • Mid-Autumn Festival Friday, October 4 Chinese calendar
  • Sukkot Saturday, October 5 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Diwali Friday, October 18 Hindu; as in India, may differ by a day elsewhere
  • Islamic New Year 1470 AH Sunday, October 20 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Orionids meteor shower peak on the night of October 21–22 up to 20 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 13% lit, 10 of 10 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: October 15–22.

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 2047 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 Sunday
30 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:54 PM
Set: 5:10 AM
2 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 6:12 AM
3 Thursday
Full Moon
7:43 PM
Harvest Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:43 PM
Set: 7:12 AM
4 Friday
Waning gibbous
Mid-Autumn Festival
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:08 PM
Set: 8:12 AM
5 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Sukkot
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:37 PM
Set: 9:13 AM
6 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:09 PM
Set: 10:12 AM
7 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:46 PM
Set: 11:11 AM
8 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 81% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:29 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
9 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 73% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:18 PM
Set: 1:00 PM
10 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 65% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:14 PM
Set: 1:48 PM
11 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:31 PM
12 Saturday
Last Quarter
12:24 AM
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:14 AM
Set: 3:08 PM
13 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:18 AM
Set: 3:41 PM
14 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:24 AM
Set: 4:12 PM
15 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:32 AM
Set: 4:40 PM
Dark night
16 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:42 AM
Set: 5:09 PM
Dark night
17 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:55 AM
Set: 5:38 PM
Dark night
18 Friday
New Moon
11:29 PM
Diwali
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:11 AM
Set: 6:11 PM
Dark night
19 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:28 AM
Set: 6:49 PM
Dark night
20 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1470 AH
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:47 AM
Set: 7:35 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waxing crescent
Orionids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 11:02 AM
Set: 8:29 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 12:10 PM
Set: 9:30 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 1:08 PM
Set: 10:38 PM
24 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:55 PM
Set: 11:47 PM
25 Friday
First Quarter
3:14 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:34 PM
Set: –
26 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:06 PM
Set: 12:55 AM
27 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 69% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:34 PM
Set: 2:01 AM
28 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:59 PM
Set: 3:04 AM
29 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 4:06 AM
30 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 4:47 PM
Set: 5:06 AM
31 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 6:05 AM
1 Friday
2 Saturday