{"id":399977,"date":"2026-01-31T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:13:11","slug":"the-last-moon-of-meteorological-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399977\/","title":{"rendered":"The last Moon of meteorological winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stargazers may be able to catch the last full Moon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/av\/34970218\" class=\"ssrcss-996bik-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meteorological winter<\/a> on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you&#8217;re tempted to pop outside to catch a glimpse, it will rise at 16:13 GMT in London and should be visible &#8211; clouds permitting &#8211; until it sets at 08:06 GMT on 2 February. These timings vary slightly depending on where in the UK you are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A full Moon happens when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of Earth &#8211; in alignment, known as &#8216;syzygy&#8217; &#8211; so the whole side that is facing us is illuminated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also appears to look full in the days before and after the peak, so there will be other opportunities to see it, if you don&#8217;t catch it on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargazers may be able to catch the last full Moon of meteorological winter on Sunday. If you&#8217;re tempted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}