Harvest Moon 2025: Watch a rare October supermoon rise amid shooting stars
Monday October 6), the first supermoon of 2025 will rise large and brilliant in the fall sky. Nicknamed the harvester of the harvester – one of the most famous Full of moons of the year – This is the first full moon of fall in the northern hemisphere, traditionally used to mark the end of the harvest season.
The Moon will officially rejoice at 11:47 p.m. on Monday (3:47 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, October 7) and will seem brilliant and full on the evenings immediately before and after the summit. The twilight Tuesday will be the best time to see the full moon appear on the oriental horizon, but it is also worth looking east in the dusk Sunday (October 5) to see the moon almost full shine just above Saturn, which is almost as close to the earth as ever.
According to AlmanacThe harvest moon is the name given to the full moon The September equinoxwhich falls on September 22 of this year. Its nickname comes from folklore agriculture on the way in which the light of the full moon allows farmers to bring together cultures late at night, not only at night of the full moon, but also the nights around it. While September often welcomes The Harvest Moon, the lunar calendar designates October as the host in 2025.
For the best views of the Moon Harvest on Tuesday, choose a high place with a clear oriental horizon. The golden-orange glow of the moon will be the most striking during the 15-20 minutes after the local moon wherever you are. Your bare eyes are all you need, but a good pair of Star binocular will offer you a magnificent view of lunar craters and black lava plains of our natural satellite, called mare.
The Moon Harvest of this year is also doubled with supermoon, appearing slightly larger and more shiny than the average. The moon will be only 224,599 miles (361,457 kilometers) of the earth, about 10% closer than usual (238,855 miles, or 384,400 km, according to Nasa. A supermoon occurs because the orbit of the moon around the earth is slightly elliptical, so each month there is a closest point (peric) and a closest point (apogee).
A supermoon is the familiar term for a full perigated moon. This month, the moon is perigued 1.3 days after its round in full – so the Moon Harvest will actually be in its closest and the biggest late at night on Wednesday October 8. It is also at this point that “the shooting stars are possible” because the peak of the annual shower of Draconid meteors takes place. While up to 10 meteors per hour are expected, the brightness of the moon can make them more difficult to spot.
There is much more to come in October, with two approaches closest to the land of two comets – Lemmon (C / 2025 A6) And Swan R2 (C / 2025 R2) – Setted to coincide with the peak of the meteor shower of Orionid during the night on October 21-22 under the dark sky of a new moon.
The next full moon, The Beaver Moon, will increase on November 5 as the largest supermoon since 2019.
