The full “Harvest Moon,” this year delighted sky-watchers not only by also being a 'supermoon' but by preceding a rare solar eclipse visible in the U.S. in two weeks.
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the full moon will also be a supermoon because the moon is at the nearest point in its orbit of Earth during the full moon. Known as the Harvest Moon, it will also be the year's fourth and final supermoon. Eclipses occur because the moon’s orbital path intercepts what astronomers call the—the apparent path the sun takes through our daytime sky. Crucially, it will do so while seeming smaller in the sky .
A composition of 14 single interval shots of the harvest moon seen from Calascio , Italy, on September 29th, 2023. The next full moon will be the “Hunter’s Moon” on October 28. As a result of the solar eclipse, this full moon will still be in a position to intercept the. That will make it align, more of less, with the Earth and the sun. As it drifts into Earth’s outershadow it will lose its luster and seem oddly dull.
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