We call this trio of stars the Summer Triangle. The most prominent visible stars appear almost directly overhead, Altair, Deneb, and Vega, the brightest stars in the three constellations of Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra, respectively. Although the center of the milky way is in the sky, we are looking away from the local arm of our galaxy, so relatively fewer bright stars are visible than in the morning sky. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will be spread across the sky from the south-southwest to the north-northeast, but with all the artificial lighting now in use, 80 percent of us in the USA can no longer see it (according to a global night sky atlas from the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute). The planet Mars will appear higher and more to the south-southwest. Low in the southwest the bright planet Saturn will appear above the bright star Antares. On the evening of the October full Moon, as evening twilight ends, the planet Venus appears low in the west-southwest. By the day of the November full Moon, we will have switched from Daylight Savings to Standard Time, morning twilight will begin at 5:50 AM, sunrise will be at 6:50 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 32.7 degrees at 11:52 AM, sunset will be at 4:55 PM, and evening twilight will end at 5:55 PM EST. For the Washington, DC area, on the day of the October full Moon, morning twilight will begin at 6:21 AM, sunrise will be at 7:19 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 41.9 degrees at 12:53 PM, sunset will be at 6:27 PM, and evening twilight will end at 7:25 PM EDT. In early autumn the daily periods of sunlight continue to shorten. This full Moon is near the middle of Muharram, the first month of the calendar, one of the four sacred months of the year.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon.Īs for other celestial sights between now and the full Moon after next: In the Islamic calendar the months start with the first sighting of the waxing crescent Moon a few days after the New Moon. The high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur occur during the first weeks of Tishri, and his full Moon corresponds with the start of the Sukkoth holiday. This full Moon is the middle of the ninth month of the Chinese calendar and Tishri in the Hebrew calendar. ![]() In lunisolar calendars the months change with the new Moon and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar month. This is a traditional celebration of the Moon and is also called the Kaumudi celebration, Kaumudi meaning moonlight. The rainy season is over and the brightness of the full Moon brings special joy. This full Moon is also Sharad Purnima or Kojaagari Purnima, a harvest festival celebrated on the full Moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin. ![]() ![]() ![]() The earliest use of the term "Hunter's Moon" cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1710.Īs the early Fall Moon or first full Moon after the Autumnal Equinox, this full Moon is also called the Travel Moon, Dying Grass Moon, and the Sanguine or Blood Moon. Since the harvesters have reaped the fields, hunters can easily see the animals that have come out to glean (and the foxes that have come out to prey on them). According to the Farmer's Almanac, with the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. This is the Hunter's Moon, the full Moon after the Harvest Moon. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Friday evening through Monday morning, making this a full Moon weekend. The next full Moon will be just after midnight on Sunday morning, October 16, 2016, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 12:23 AM EDT, right in the middle of the weekend.
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