For those who have been gazing at the beautiful moon this year, you'll able to see the last harvest moon of 2023 that will rise this week.
The bright, full moon will fall once more between Thursday night and Friday morning, barring any cloud cover where you live.
The “harvest moon” falls closest to the start of autumn and got its name before the advent of electricity, when farmers had to rely on the moon’s light as they worked into the night harvesting their crops, according to NASA.
You may also notice one or more of the three planets accompanying the harvest moon: Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury, according to Space.com.
This year’s harvest moon follows the rare blue supermoon, which is the closest full moon of the year that lit up the sky in late August.
A supermoon happens around the time when a full moon passes closest to Earth in its orbit. About a quarter of the full moons in a year will be supermoons, according to NASA.
If you decide to stay inside and skip the last supermoon of 2023, you’ll have to wait until Sept. 18, 2024 to see another one. The second and final supermoon of 2024 will be on Oct. 17.
Source: KTLA