深空视界
深空视界
A majestic graced the night sky on Oct. 6-7, putting on a spectacular show as it loomed large and bright over the eastern horizon at moonrise with Saturn close to its right among the stars of the constellation Pisces..
The closest to the autumn e is known as the Harvest Moon — when, prior to the advent of artificial lighting, farmers would work under the reflected light of the full moon to bring in crops from the fields before the weather turned. The 2025 Harvest Moon happened to fall in October and occurred just as the moon was reaching its lowest point in its cyclical 27-day orbit of Earth, giving rise to a spectacular ..
can appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than it does on average, making for a spectacular display as it rises over the eastern horizon opposite the setting sun in the west to flood the night sky with reflected sunlight.Read on to see a collection of spectacular images of the full Harvest Supermoon, as seen through the lenses of the global astrophotography community. If you missed moonrise on Oct. 6 there's absolutely no need to fret, the moon will continue to look full to the casual observer in the day or two following its full , so get out there and try your hand at photography using our handy !
Breathtaking images of the October 2025 full Harvest Supermoon
Austin DeSisto captured this perfectly timed shot of the full Harvest Moon as it passed behind the tip of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. on October 6, as cloud wisps teamed up with solidified, ancient lava flows to darken the lunar surface.
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Veteran photographer Gary Hershorn snapped a stunning view of the yellow supermoon suspended above the Statue of Liberty in New York on Oct. 6, as seen at sunset from New Jersey City.
The moon's strange yellow hue is the result of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh Scattering, wherein Earth's dense atmosphere interferes with the passage of shorter, bluer wavelengths of light, while allowing longer, redder, wavelengths to pass through relatively unscathed. This can result in a striking yellow-orange moon when Earth's natural satellite is close to the horizon.