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Credit & Copyright: Mike Carroll
Explanation:
That big, bright, beautiful Full Moon you watched rise on the night of
October 6 was
the
Harvest Moon.
Famed in festival, story, and song,
Harvest Moon is just the traditional name of the full moon
nearest the time of the northern hemisphere's
autumnal
equinox.
According to lore the name is a fitting one.
Despite the diminishing daylight hours, as the
growing
season
drew to a close in the north, farmers could harvest crops by the light
of a full moon
shining on
from dusk to dawn.
Later this year than usual, in 2025 October's Harvest Moon
was also known to some as a supermoon,
a term becoming a traditional name for a
full
moon near the time of lunar perigee.
And this telephoto snapshot of the (almost) full moon rising
above
a conspicuous skyscraper in New York city, taken on October 5,
is suggestive of yet another full moon moniker.
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