Sky-watchers across Jersey were treated to a supermoon on Tuesday night.<\/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 Tuesday’s occurrence was the first time it happened since November 2024.<\/p>\n
This supermoon is known by two names – the Hunter’s Moon and 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 known as the Harvest Moon, as it rises closest to the autumn equinox on 22 September, reflecting a time when farmers would use the moon’s brightness to collect crops in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky-watchers across Jersey were treated to a supermoon on Tuesday night. A supermoon appears brighter and larger than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-62324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}