{"id":813456,"date":"2026-10-25T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:32:13","slug":"hunters-moon-britons-set-for-stunning-night-as-rare-supermoon-dazzles-stargazers-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813456\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter&#8217;s Moon: Britons set for stunning night as rare supermoon dazzles stargazers across the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; comes from the season when hunters historically relied on bright moonlight to track game and stockpile provisions before the harsh winter months. <\/p>\n<p>Many traditional names for each month&#8217;s full Moon have roots in Native American cultures, reflecting the rhythms of the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>This particular full Moon is notable as the last before an impressive sequence of four consecutive supermoons begins. <\/p>\n<p> The first arrives on November 24 as the Beaver Supermoon, followed by the Cold Supermoon on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The run of supermoons then extends into the new year, with both January and February 2027&#8217;s full Moons also qualifying for the distinction.<\/p>\n<p>The Hunter&#8217;s Moon is also renowned for lingering in the sky for an extended period, much like September&#8217;s Harvest Moon, providing prolonged illumination during the lengthening autumn nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; comes from the season when hunters historically relied on bright moonlight to track game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813456","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=813456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}