If you are catching the last night of back-to-back meteor showers, there is one more skywatching event you don’t want to miss this weekend: The full Hunter’s Moon.
The full Hunter’s Moon, which is a cool name for a full moon, will rise Sunday night right at 5:17 p.m. EDT and when it’s close to the horizon, it will look larger in size, WMUR-TV reported. If skies are clear, the full Hunter’s Moon could have an orange-like glow, right in time for Halloween.
Known as “moon illusion,” the full Hunter’s moon will look like it’s bigger and higher in the night sky and have a red, orange, or yellow tone due to its close proximity to the horizon, Newsweek noted.
“When the moon is high overhead, it is dwarfed by the vast hemisphere of the heavens and appears to our eyes as a small disk in the sky. By contrast, when the moon is low, it is viewed in relation to earthly objects, such as chimneys or trees, whose size and shape provide scale,” Bob Berman, an astronomer for the Farmer’s Almanac, told Newsweek. “Your brain compares the size of the moon to the trees, buildings, or other reference points, and suddenly, the moon looks massive!”
It’s going to be a full moon on Sunday, and because it’s going to cross the horizon around sunset, it’ll appear larger and more orange in the sky.
Called the “Hunter’s Moon,” it’s the first full moon after the “Harvest Moon,” (the full moon closest to the autumn equinox). pic.twitter.com/JDBfFWCe5f
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The cool part about the full Hunter’s Moon is that it will rise at sunset and set around the same time as sunrise due to the recent equinox. Skywatchers will be able to track the full Hunter’s Moon throughout the sky from Sunday, October 13 to Monday, October 14.
The full Hunter’s Moon, which is also known as the Dying Grass Moon or Travel Moon, is the full moon after the Harvest Moon, according to NASA. The Farmer’s Almanac points out that this time of year involves leaves falling and hunting for deer.
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