To: ngc6656
SO then how do we know it's a Harvest Moon?
93 posted on
09/28/2004 7:43:23 PM PDT by
missyme
To: missyme
SO then how do we know it's a Harvest Moon? Check your FReep mail; you'll find a list of all of them, and an explaination of them
96 posted on
09/28/2004 7:52:44 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: missyme
SO then how do we know it's a Harvest Moon? As someone posted earlier, it is the full moon following the first day of autumn.
An approximate rule is, each year it is the full moon occurring anywhere in the period between September 22 and October 21.
The rule is approximate because a year is 365.24 days long and that fractional day causes the first day of autumn to move around a little on the calendar in a four year cycle.
97 posted on
09/28/2004 7:55:04 PM PDT by
ngc6656
To: missyme
SO then how do we know it's a Harvest Moon?Nothing to do with appearance (except for that whole big, round, full business). it's everything to do with timing. this is the first full moon after the first day of Autumn, hence, the Harvest Moon.
98 posted on
09/28/2004 7:55:38 PM PDT by
SlowBoat407
(I voted for Bush... before I voted for Bush.)
To: missyme
The term "Harvest Moon" doesn't have any links to color. It is just the first full moon to occur after the beginning of autumn, so by definition we have a Harvest Moon every year. It was a welcome source of light to farmers working to bring in the crops in the days when artificial light meant candles or oil lamps. Since a full moon rises at sunset, it effectively extended the hours in which they had sufficient light to work in the fields.
That's it. Nothing mysterious or unusual about it at all.
101 posted on
09/28/2004 7:59:14 PM PDT by
Denver Ditdat
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