Hunter’s Moon on October 25 closest for 2007
Full moon over Arlington, TX
Photo: David
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Thursday, October 25.
Tonight’s full moon is the Hunter’s Moon. It’s also the closest and therefore biggest full moon of 2007.
Tonight’s moon will be about 50,000 kilometers – or 30,000 miles – closer to the Earth than 2007’s most distant and smallest full moon, last April.
This October full moon is the Hunter’s Moon for the northern hemisphere. That’s the name for the full moon following the Harvest Moon in September. This October full Hunter’s Moon comes at precisely 4:52 a.m. Universal Time Friday. For the continental U.S., that means the full moon comes this evening or around midnight Thursday night, when the moon will be shining sky high.
At the same time – on the opposite side of the world in East Asia and Indonesia – this same full moon will be reaching its peak at noontime Friday.
No matter where you live, all of you will see a large and full-looking moon all night tonight. You’ll see the moon rising in the east around sunset, highest in the sky around local midnight and setting in the west around sunrise.
Around the time of each full moon, the moon stays out all night long. That’s because, in order to appear full, the moon has to be opposite the sun.
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In the course of a month, the moon in its orbit swings closest to Earth at perigee and farthest from Earth at apogee. This site gives you the dates and times for this year’s perigees and apogees, plus new and full moons.
Tide calculator – Old Farmer’s Almanac
