It’s hard to miss, but you may still want to mark your calendars. <\/p>\n
A full moon will illuminate Metro Vancouver skies next week and be\u00a0one of the year’s\u00a0final full moons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But October’s full moon will be the final seemingly regular-sized moon of the year. November and December will feature supermoons, appearing roughly 15 per cent brighter and seven per cent bigger than a regular moon.<\/p>\n
EarthSky<\/a> notes that astronomers usually call supermoons perigean full moons, a term indicating\u00a0that the moon is “near Earth.”<\/p>\n October’s full moon,\u00a0often called the full “hunter” moon, will\u00a0appear at its fullest<\/a>\u00a0in the Lower Mainland on Oct. 25\u00a0at 9:11 p.m., according to timeanddate.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n October’s full moon derived its name because it happened when people hunted to prepare for a long\u00a0winter. It’s often referred to as the Sanguine or Blood Moon, “either associated with the blood from hunting or the turning of the leaves in autumn.” The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a> notes that Indigenous Peoples would give distinctive names to each recurring full moon to mark the changing seasons.<\/p>\n Why isn’t the\u00a0October full moon called\u00a0the Harvest Moon?<\/p>\n Last year, the October full moon was coined the\u00a0full harvest moon because it fell closer to the fall equinox on Sept. 22\u00a0than September’s full moon. This year, the September moon, known popularly as the full “corn” moon, lit the sky on Sept. 26, placing it closer to the autumn event.\u00a0<\/p>\n This means it could either happen in September or October, depending on when the full moons are.<\/p>\n