The harvest moon hangs between goal posts during Cazenovia vs. Skaneateles football at Skaneateles High School, Skaneateles, N.Y.
, on Friday Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.
com Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Samantha House | shouse@syracuse.com In a year marked by the once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse and repeat showings of the dazzling northern lights , New York sky watchers are set to get lucky yet again this week.
The harvest supermoon will brighten night skies above the Empire State and around the world on Tuesday, Sept. 17. And when the big, beautiful supermoon rises, sky lovers will be treated to another celestial event: a partial lunar eclipse.
“The Full Harvest Moon of September 2024 will be a special one,” Space.com said. Starting Monday, the moon will appear full for three days.
But the true harvest supermoon — the second of four consecutive supermoons — will happen Tuesday night, when the moon will appear “ever so slightly bigger and brighter,” NASA wrote in its September “What’s Up” newsletter . A harvest moon rises over fields off Bishop Hill Road in the town of Marcellus, N.Y.
around 7:40 pm Sept 16., 2016. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.
com SYR The partial lunar eclipse will happen Tuesday evening in our Eastern time zone — starting around 8:40 p.m. and peaking around 10:44 p.
m., according to Space.com.
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