Let’s hope for the forecast clear skies Wednesday night as we will want to see a lunar showpiece — the closest and brightest moon for 2025 — a full hunter’s supermoon .

The hunter’s full moon is the full moon that occurs after the full harvest moon which, happened last month. Usually the hunter’s moon is in October, but every four years it occurs in November. The moon will be at full phase at 8:19 a.m. EST on Wednesday. Check out the time for moon rise from your location .

In days gone by, hunters used the light of the full moon to hunt in the fallow fields following their harvest.

The term “supermoon” has made its way into every day usage but it is not an astronomical term. When the moon orbits the Earth each month, it passes a point where it is closest to our planet — perigee

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