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elleng

(131,338 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 04:56 PM Oct 2021

Full Hunter Moon Alert: Tonight and tomorrow night we will be treated

to the Full Hunter Moon, the first Full Moon of Autumn 2021. The Full Moon is actually occurs at 10:57 am (EST) on Wednesday morning, so tonight and Wednesday night the Moon will be equally full. The Moon rises in Harrisonburg tonight at 6:23 pm and Wednesday evening at 6:47 pm, start looking soon after. The Hunter Moon when low in the sky can be the 'orangiest' Full Moon of the year because of the leaves outgassing as they change color. The Full Moon in October follows a low path across the sky since the plane of the Solar System (the ecliptic plane) is low in the evening sky in October. The Hunter Moon shines into the windows all night long. It is called the Hunter Moon because it signaled the time to go hunting in preparation for the cold winter ahead. This is going to be a pretty sight!

from John C. Wells Planetarium

The full Hunter’s Moon is October 20

In western skylore, the Hunter’s Moon is the full moon after the Harvest Moon. The Hunter’s Moon usually falls in October. If not, it falls in early November. In 2021, on both the evening of October 19 and 20, the moon will be more than 99% lit as it ascends in the east in the evening. October’s full moon – the Northern Hemisphere’s Hunter’s Moon – will be 100% lit on October 20 at 14:56 UTC; translate UTC to your time. On October 21, and even on October 22, you might glimpse a full round moon ascending in the east in early evening. It’s a characteristic of the Hunter’s Moon to rise around the time of sunset for several evenings in a row, as if this month has more than one full moon.

Eastern Australia and New Zealand will see the full moon on October 21. It’s not a Hunter’s Moon for the Southern Hemisphere because it’s spring in that hemisphere now. So the full moon has different characteristics.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-hunters-moon/?

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Full Hunter Moon Alert: Tonight and tomorrow night we will be treated (Original Post) elleng Oct 2021 OP
Interesting, thank you canetoad Oct 2021 #1

canetoad

(17,214 posts)
1. Interesting, thank you
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:49 PM
Oct 2021

I know exactly the appearance about which you write, although we have far fewer deciduous trees to add colour.

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