Fall is almost here , with the fall equinox less than two weeks away , so it ’s not hard to guess why September ’s full Moon is prognosticate the Harvest Moon . It will top out tomorrow , September 10 , at 5:59 am EDT precisely , but if you look up at the sky you ’ll see it appear full until Sunday .
Many of thenames give to the full Moonsthroughout the year are pick out from the Maine Farmer ’s Almanac , which uses the names that variousNative American tribes had given them . The last full Moon of summer is a act of an exclusion as the name was already in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1706 , as report byNASA .
The harvest home theme is seen in the names given to this Moon by different cultures . Other European name for it are the Fruit moon and the Barley Moon . The condition “ laboriosa ” ( hard - working ) , is used in Italy to relate to this Moon . It is the Corn Moon for the Algonquin hoi polloi , the autochthonic habitants of what is now the northeastern United States and many neighborhood of Canada .
In several Asiatic countries including China and Vietnam , this Sun Myung Moon mark traditional harvesting festival . In parts of China , it is known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival , with offering given to the Moon Goddess Chang’e ( China ’s Moon missionis named after her ) . In Japan , this Moon is known as Imomeigetsu ( potato harvesting moon ) as part of their Tsukimi , the Moon - viewing fete . For Buddhists in Bangladesh and Thailand , this is the Honey Full Moon Festival or Madhu Purnima .
This Moon also marks religious activity for both Hindus and Jews , the former as it starts the Pitru Paksha ( fortnight of the ancestors ) , the latter as it falls in Elul , an important month in the Hebrew calendar that tick off a preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur .
This summertime has seenfour supermoons in a row – the non - astronomic name for when a full Moon happens to cooccur with the Moon ’s perigee , the faithful point in its eye socket to us , make it appear Brobdingnagian in the sky . Now , it ’s back to regular old Moons , but do n’t care , we ’ve got mint to nurse us come in up . On September 14 you may be able to see theMoon block Uranus , and on September 26 Jupiter will be the closest it ’s been to Earth in 70 years . October ’s partial solar occultation and November ’s partial lunar eclipse are also on schedule , so check back here for how best to keep an eye on .
