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Get ready for this Halloween’s Blue Hunter's Moon
Hunters become the hunted.
Saturday is everyone’s favorite spooky fall holiday: Halloween. And this year, trick-or-treaters will enjoy making their socially distanced rounds under the light of a Full Moon. But there’s more to this Halloween’s Full Moon than a bit of supernatural mystique. Saturday’s Full Moon is also a Blue Moon — a term that applies to any second Full Moon within a single calendar month. (This skies this month hosted their first Full Moon on October 1.)
That’s not all, either. If you want to get a bit crazy, this Halloween technically sports a Blue Hunter’s Moon, as a Full Moon in October is typically referred to as a Hunter’s Moon. But what about the first Full Moon of the Month? Was that a Hunter’s Moon, too?
Actually, no. It was considered a Harvest Moon, a name reserved for the Full Moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox. Normally, the Harvest Moon falls in September. But every few years — this year included — it pops up in October.
This year’s Blue Moon is a bit special because it coincides with Halloween. Halloween Full Moons are even rarer than Blue Moons — the last time any part of the U.S. enjoyed the light of a Halloween Full Moon was 2001. But the last time the entire world saw a Full Moon on Halloween (thanks to the way time zones affect the dates of viewing Full Moons across the globe) was October 31, 1944.
The next Halloween Full Moon won’t hover in the skies above trick-or-treaters until 2039.
Additionally, as mentioned above, the Harvest Moon is the Full Moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox. Usually, September’s Full Moon is the Harvest Moon. But this year, the equinox was on September 22. And because September’s only Full Moon was Sept. 2nd, while October’s first Full Moon fell on Oct. 1st — closer in time to the equinox — the first Full Moon of October took this year’s title for Harvest Moon.
https://astronomy.com/news/observing/2020/10/halloween-blue-hunters-moon
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