There will be a “harvest” moon on Tuesday, which will appear full to delight viewers from Monday until early Thursday.
The event, which is also being called a supermoon, will appear around 10:35 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday and on the night of the full moon there will also be a partial lunar eclipse, USA Today reported Thursday.
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The harvest moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox, which this year is Sept. 22. The harvest moon’s name has long been tied to when crops need to be picked from the fields. “In the days before tractors with headlights, having moonlight to work by was crucial to getting the harvest in quickly before rain caused it to rot,” said Alan MacRobert, an editor at Sky & Telescope magazine.
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According to NASA, the first recorded use of the name “harvest” moon in the English language was written in 1706. NASA explained on Wednesday that the harvest season keeps farmers very busy, requiring them to put in extra time and work by moonlight.
“On average moonrise is about 50 minutes later each night. Around the Harvest Moon this time is shorter, about 25 minutes for the latitude of Washington, DC, and only 10 to 20 minutes farther north in Canada and Europe,” the agency said, noting that European names for the full moon are the Fruit Moon and Barley Moon in reference to ripening fruits and harvesting and threshing barley.
In April, multitudes of people were in awe due to the total solar eclipse when the moon passed between the sun and Earth to block the sun and cause the sky to darken, Breitbart News reported at the time:
“One reason behind the excitement is that the next solar eclipse to cross the United States will not happen until 20 years from now,” the outlet said.