September 16, 2011
You were not dropped into the cosmos as a stranger. You came from it entirely: borrowed from stars, carried by Earth, warmed by the Sun, and...
September's Harvest Moon
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APOD published September 16, 2011. Credit: Stefano De Rosa. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
A Full Moon rising can be a dramatic celestial sight, and Full Moons can have many names. For example, Monday's Full Moon was the one nearest this year's autumnal equinox for the northern hemisphere, traditionally called the Harvest Moon. According to lore the name is a fitting one because farmers could work late into the night at the end of the growing season harvesting crops by moonlight. This serene telephoto image captures this September's harvest moonrise from Turin, Italy. In silhouette against an orange lunar disk is Turin's hilltop Basilica of Superga. APOD Retrospective: Harvest and Hunter Moons
Image credit: Stefano De Rosa