A full Moon will grace the skies on Sunday 9 October. The first full Moon of autumn, it is sometimes known as the Hunter’s Moon or Blood Moon.
The full Moon will appear opposite the Sun in the sky around 4.55pm EDT on Sunday, Though this will be Monday morning for people in the Gulf Standard or Iran time zones all the way to the International Date Line.
While it will not be a “super moon,” a non-scientific term referring to full Moons that occur while the Moon is at its closest approach to Earth, this full Moon does come with an interesting heritage of names in different cultural traditions.
The Algonquin Native American tribes of the northeast US called this full Moon the Travel Moon, Hunter’s Moon, or Blood Moon, according to a Nasa blog. It also marks the end of a period of fasting for Buddhist monks known as Vassa, a boat racing festival in Laos, and the seven-day-long Sukkot festival of the Hebrew calendar.
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