Sky-watcher Jason Way captured this amazing shot of a supermoon above Dartmoor’s Haytor Rocks on Tuesday night, among many other images of the phenonomen taken in Cornwall.<\/p>\n
A supermoon appears brighter and larger than other full moons in the evening sky and occurs when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth.<\/p>\n
The term was first coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle and this occurrence was the first since November 2024.<\/p>\n
This supermoon is known by different names – both as the Hunter’s Moon and as the Harvest Moon.<\/p>\n
It is referred to as the Hunter’s Moon because as the first full moon in October, it was a time when historically preparations were made for winter in the northern hemisphere, with people hunting and preserving meats.<\/p>\n
It is also referred to the Harvest Moon, as it rises closest to the autumn equinox (22 September), and reflects a time when farmers would use the moon’s brightness to collect crops in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky-watcher Jason Way captured this amazing shot of a supermoon above Dartmoor’s Haytor Rocks on Tuesday night, among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-67378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}