Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 7 3:44 PM
  • Full Moon Thursday, April 15 5:24 PM Pink MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, April 23 2:55 PM
  • New Moon Friday, April 30 6:14 AM

Also in April

  • Penumbral lunar eclipse Thursday, April 15, 5:35 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Passover Thursday, April 15 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 18 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 63% lit, 4 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total solar eclipse Friday, April 30, 6:08 AM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 1–2, April 23–30.

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).

March April 2060 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:43 AM
Set: 9:00 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:11 AM
Set: 10:19 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:43 AM
Set: 11:38 PM
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:21 AM
Set: –
5 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:06 AM
Set: 12:54 AM
6 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 10:59 AM
Set: 2:04 AM
7 Wednesday
First Quarter
3:44 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:59 AM
Set: 3:03 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 59% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:03 PM
Set: 3:52 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:08 PM
Set: 4:31 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 77% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:13 PM
Set: 5:03 AM
11 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:15 PM
Set: 5:29 AM
12 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:15 PM
Set: 5:52 AM
13 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:14 PM
Set: 6:12 AM
14 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:13 PM
Set: 6:32 AM
15 Thursday
Full Moon
5:24 PM
Pink Moon
Micromoon
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Passover
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:12 PM
Set: 6:52 AM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:13 PM
Set: 7:14 AM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:15 PM
Set: 7:38 AM
18 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:19 PM
Set: 8:06 AM
19 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:39 AM
20 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:22 AM
Set: 9:21 AM
21 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 71% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:22 AM
Set: 10:11 AM
22 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:16 AM
Set: 11:10 AM
23 Friday
Last Quarter
2:55 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:04 AM
Set: 12:17 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 1:29 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:18 AM
Set: 2:43 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 20% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:47 AM
Set: 3:57 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:14 AM
Set: 5:13 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:40 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:07 AM
Set: 7:48 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
New Moon
6:14 AM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:37 AM
Set: 9:08 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday