Halloween Full Moon! First Time In 46 Years

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Full Moon to Occur on Halloween

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37671,00.html

 

MIAMI — For the first time

in 46 years, this

year's Halloween ghosts and

goblins can trick

or treat by the light of a

full moon. They won't

get another chance until 2020,

astronomers

said.

 

Wednesday night's full moon will look like an

orange jack-o-lantern rising

from the east at dusk, said Jack Horkheimer,

executive director of the Miami

Space Transit Planetarium.

 

http://www.jackstargazer.com/scripts0SG0142.html

 

It will appear orange at the horizon because

it is seen through denser layers

of the earth's atmosphere. Adding to the effect,

the moon's tilt at this time of

the year makes the "man in the moon" particularly

visible.

 

Some astronomers believe jack-o-lantern carving

was inspired by the rising,

orange October moon, said Horkheimer, writer

and host of PBS's nationally

syndicated Star Gazer series for 25 years.

 

To make the superstitious even more jittery,

a constellation associated with

the some end-of-the-world beliefs will also be

at the top of Wednesday

night's sky.

 

The Seven Sisters constellation, which looks

like a small cluster of grapes,

has long been a signal for the time of year to

honor the dead — such as All

Saints Day, Nov. 1.

 

According to myth, the Seven Sisters constellation

is at its highest point in the

sky during a great calamity, possibly the biblical

flood or the sinking of

Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans believed it would

be overhead at midnight on

the night the world comes to an end, Horkheimer

said.

 

The Seven Sisters and the full moon will both

be directly overhead at

midnight, he said.

 

"It's just very nifty because it will be a very

bright full moon and when it's up

high like that, it will just flood the landscape

with a lovely bright light," said

Horkheimer.

 

Technically, the moment the moon will be at its

fullest is 12:41 a.m. EST

Thursday, but the moon will look virtually full

when trick or treaters are out in

force late Wednesday.