The October Full Moon, also called the Harvest Moon or Hunter’s Moon, rises right this moment, marking the primary supermoon of the 12 months.
You may watch the lunar spectacle stay on-line because of a free livestream from astronomer Gianluca Masi and his Digital Telescope Venture in Manciano, Italy. The webcast begins at 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT on Oct. 7), and you’ll watch it stay right here on House.com (by way of the video above) or instantly on the Digital Telescope Venture’s WebTV or YouTube channel, climate allowing.
“At The Digital Telescope challenge, we love sharing stay views of our satellite tv for pc: the upcoming supermoon is a superb alternative to ask our neighborhood to lookup, step one to find the great universe the place we stay,” Masi instructed House.com in an e-mail.
Why is that this full moon particular?
Whereas the second of full illumination is identical worldwide, moonrise and set occasions differ relying in your location. For instance, in New York Metropolis, the Harvest Moon will rise at about 6:08 p.m. EDT and set the next morning at round 7:25 a.m. In Los Angeles, moonrise is later, at about 6:29 p.m. PDT (9:29 p.m. EDT), whereas in London, the full moon rises at 6:20 p.m. BST (1720 GMT).
This month’s moon can also be a supermoon, showing barely bigger and brighter than a typical full moon as a result of the moon is close to perigee, its closest level to Earth in its orbit. Whereas the scale distinction is delicate, supermoons are all the time a deal with to observe — particularly close to the horizon, the place the moon can seem even bigger because of the “moon phantasm“.
