A Harvest Moon 
Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Francois Graffand

Explanation: Famed in festival, story, and song the best known full moon is the Harvest Moon. For northern hemisphere dwellers that's a traditional name of the closest full moon to the September equinox. In most North America time zones this year's Harvest Moon will officially rise on Friday, September 13. In fact the same Harvest Moon will rise on September 14 for much of the planet though. Of course the Moon will look almost full in the surrounding days. Regardless of your time zone the Harvest Moon, like any other full moon, will rise just opposite the setting Sun. Near the horizon, the Moon Illusion might make it appear bigger and brighter to you but this Harvest Moon will be near lunar apogee. That's the closest point in its orbit, making it the most distant, and so the smallest, full moon of the year. On August 15 a wheat field harvested in south central France made this a harvest moon scene too, the full moon shining on with beautiful iridescent clouds at sunset.

豐收月亮 

在節(jié)日、故事和歌曲中最著名的滿月就是豐收月亮。對(duì)于北半球居民來(lái)說(shuō)，這是9月份秋分最接近滿月的傳統(tǒng)稱呼。在大多數(shù)北美時(shí)區(qū)，今年的豐收月亮將在9月13日升起。事實(shí)上，同樣的豐收月亮將在9月14日覆蓋到地球的大部分地區(qū)。當(dāng)然，在這附近的日子，月亮看起來(lái)幾乎已經(jīng)滿了。無(wú)論你的時(shí)區(qū)如何，與任何其他滿月一樣，豐收月亮將在夕陽(yáng)的對(duì)面升起。在地平線附近， 它看起來(lái)更大更亮，但這個(gè)豐收月亮將接近月球遠(yuǎn)地點(diǎn)。8月15日，在法國(guó)中南部一塊收獲的麥田地中見(jiàn)證了豐收月亮，滿月在日落時(shí)閃耀著美麗的彩虹云。

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