(CNN) — Keep your eyes along the horizon on Monday night to see the first supermoon of the year.

October’s full moon, also called the harvest moon, will be visible from Monday night into early Tuesday. The silvery orb will be at its fullest around 11:48 p.m. ET Monday, according to EarthSky .

“The joy of a full moon is that if it’s cloudy in your neighborhood on Monday night on the 6th, you can look Tuesday, and the moon will still look fairly full,” said Noah Petro, project scientist for NASA’s Artemis III mission, which aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2027.

The moniker harvest moon indicates that it’s the full moon event closest to the autumnal equinox , or the first day of fall. Historically, the moon’s bright light helped farmers complete their harvests for

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