How to See the October Harvest Moon.
The lunar orb rising on Thursday night marks the closest full moon to the fall equinox. On Thursday night, the sky will be aglow with this year’s harvest moon—the first time a full moon bearing this moniker has fallen in October since 2009.
Technically, the moon reaches its full phase on October 5 at 2:40 p.m. ET, which means the harvest moon will be in effect when the lunar orb glides above the horizon at 7:21 p.m. ET.
At that tonight marks the first October harvest moon in almost a decade – Here’s why that matters.
Why are people so interested in this phenomenon? That's because the moon harvest marks a special time in the moon's orbit of the moon where it appears in our sky longer and brighter than the other nights.
The moon is about 20 minutes earlier than the typical moon, and basically, just after sunset, with little or no darkness between the sun and the moon.
More info about Harvest Moon:
The Harvest Moon is the full Moon nearest the start of fall or the autumnal equinox. This usually means it coincides with the September full Moon, though it can also fall nearer to the October full Moon, occurring anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after the equinox.
The Moon’s orbital motion carries it farther eastward among the constellations of the zodiac from night to night.
At any one moon, the moon occupies a special place in the sky, but when the earth turns toward it 24 hours later, the moon moves east about 12 degrees and takes an average of 50 minutes to return to the Moon and for the Moon thus to rise.
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Oct 2017.
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