Get ready this Sunday for the first full moon of October

It is also called the “Hunter’s Moon,” which coincides with the Draconid meteor shower.
The first moon of autumn will take place tomorrow, Sunday, which is popularly known by many names, the most widespread: the “hunter’s moon.”

This moon arrives after what is known as the “harvest moon” and is linked to the suitability for hunting, according to the farmer’s almanac, NASA states on its website: “with the fall of the leaves and the fattening of the deer “It’s time to hunt.”

“As the harvesters have mowed the fields, hunters can easily see the animals that have gone out to glean (and the foxes that have come out to prey).”

The first written use of the term “hunter’s moon” was identified in the Oxford English Dictionary of 1710, and it was in the 1930s that the Maine Farmer’s Almanac first published the names given by Native Americans. to full moons.

Over time, these names have become widely popular and have been used, explains NASA, which notes that this full moon also became known by the names travel moon or blood moon.

The full moon on the 9th – with different links in other cultures and calendars – officially begins at 20:55 GMT, although the Earth’s satellite can be observed almost in its fullness hours before and until Tuesday.

This moon coincides with the dragonborn meteor shower, which will look dull. Its maximum is also this weekend, specifically the night from today to Sunday and the lunar brightness will make it difficult to “hunt.”

The next full moons of the fall will occur on November 8 and December 8.

EFE

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