October will have its second full moon — a rare Blue Moon — beginning Saturday and lasting through Sunday.
Oct.31 (UPI) — October will have its second full moon — a rare Blue Moon — beginning Saturday and lasting through Sunday. The moon appears at its fullest, opposite the sun in earth-based longitude, at 10:49 a.m. EDT on Saturday, according to NASA. It should appear full through Sunday night. The first full moon after the Harvest Moon — which appeared Oct.1 this year — is also called the Hunter’s Moon, according to the Farmer’s Almanac, a moniker that appears in the Oxford English Dictionary dating back to 1710. This full moon will appear smaller Saturday night because it occurs nearest to the time when the moon is farthest in its orbit from the Earth, at its apogee, so NASA calls it a „Micro Moon“ as opposed to a Supermoon.
