This month's full moon is also called the Long Night Moon, since nights are at their longest and darkest. It's also known as the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long and the moon is above the horizon a long time. The midwinter full moon takes a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to the low sun.
This is also the smallest full moon of a "micromoon," or minimoon , since the Earth will arrive at apogee, its farthest distance from Earth, on Dec. Amid the zero cold and deep snows of midwinter, wolf packs howled hungrily outside villages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the Moon after Yule.
In some tribes this was the Full Snow Moon; most applied that name to the next moon. Usually the heaviest snows fall in this month.
Hunting became very difficult, and hence to some tribes this was the Full Hunger Moon. In this month the ground softens and earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of robins. Some more northern tribes knew this as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or the Full Crust Moon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night.
The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. The grass pink or wild ground phlox is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. And while the changes may seem slow, on any given day the amount of Moon illuminated by the Sun can vary by as much as percent. The illustration above shows the range of illumination for today - November 13, The New Moon Phase occurs when the Moon is completely dark with zero-percent luminosity, while the Full Moon Phase is completely bright with percent luminosity.
The First and Last Quarter phases happen when the Moon is exactly half illuminated, with percent luminosity. In reality, the exact moment of the Full Moon can be timed to the second. The remaining four Moon phases occur at halfway points between the main phases. The illustration below shows all eight main and minor Moon phases and where they occur in the lunar cycle.
Imagine a Neanderthal peering out of his cave some dark summer night as the Full Moon rises above the horizon. Nothing on Earth was quite like this strange brilliant object arcing through the night sky. Always have loved full moons, sunsets, sunrises!
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This stage is sometimes also called Third Quarter. In the Northern Hemisphere, the left side is illuminated; in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the right side.
During a last quarter phase, the Moon is said to be at west quadrature, meaning that it is 90 degrees west of the Sun when viewed from Earth. This phase occurs between the last quarter and new Moon phases. Eventually, the entire disk will be in darkness, at which point it will be the new Moon phase and another lunar cycle will have begun. In the Southern Hemisphere, the same thing happens, only the lit area would have started on the right side and shrunk from left to right, until a thin crescent remained on the right.
Once the Sun rises, it is not easy to see this slim phase; the best time is before the glare of sunrise. The term " Moon's age " is not a reference to how long the Moon has existed about 4. As mentioned above, the span of time between one new Moon and the next is called a lunar cycle , lunation , lunar month , or synodic month and on average lasts for This translates to 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds.
The length of a lunar cycle can vary by more than 13 hours due to a few factors. When the new Moon phase occurs at about the same time as apogee when the Moon is farthest from Earth , longer lunations result. This is related to the fact that the Moon travels faster in its orbit at perigee and slowest in its orbit at apogee.
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