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Your ‘Harvest Moon’ Moment Is An Illusion: Why This Week’s Full Moon Will Look Big But Be Small – Forbes
Look low on the eastern horizon close to dusk this Thursday, October 1, 2020, and you’ll see—clear skies allowing—a massive-looking “Harvest Moon” rising.
A ‘Harvest Moon’ rising. Why does it look so big?
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Look low on the eastern horizon close to dusk this Thursday, October 1, 2020, and youll seeclear skies allowinga massive Harvest Moon rising.
The first of a few famous full Moons this coming season, the Harvest Moon is so-called because it helps farmers get the crop in late into the night. Of course, thats not how modern farmers work, but as with all full Moons it will rise in the east, opposite the sunset, shine a…
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