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 | [email protected] Samantha House | [email protected] 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.
Partial lunar eclipses happen when part of the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow. What impact will that have on our view? “You’ll see a little bite taken out of one side of the moon,” NASA said. If we truly get lucky, the full harvest supermoon and partial eclipse will happen one day after the aurora borealis (hopefully) pays a visit to Upstate New York on Monday night.
Don’t fret too much if you miss September’s supermoon. Sky watchers will have a chance to gaze at successive supermoons on Oct. 17, the day of the hunter’s moon, and Nov.
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