![]() ![]() This full Moon is the middle of the eleventh month of the Chinese calendar, Tevet in the Hebrew calendar, and Jumada al-awwal (also known as Jumada al-Ula) in the Islamic calendar.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon. In most lunar and lunisolar calendars, the months change with the new Moon, and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar month. ![]() 16, 2020, humanity's first lunar sample return since 1976. The Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission launched on November 23 (in UTC, November 24 in China's time zone), collected samples from the Moon, and returned them to Earth on Dec. The Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 rover launched Dec. The Chang'e 3 lander and its companion Yutu rover launched on Dec. These missions get their name from the Chinese goddess of the Moon, Chang'e, who lived on the Moon with her pet rabbit, Yutu. We could also call this the Chang'e Moon, after the three Chinese lunar landers that launched and landed on the Moon this time of year. It is said to be the oldest living human-planted tree with a known planting date. The sapling was planted in 288 BCE by King Devanampiya Tissa in the Mahamevnāwa Park in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. ![]() In the 3rd century BCE, Sangamitta Theri, the daughter of Emperor Asoka and founder of an order of Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka, brought a branch of this tree to Sri Lanka. The Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment by meditating under a Bodhi Tree in India. This full Moon also corresponds with the Thiruvathira festival celebrated by Hindus in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.įor the Buddhists of Sri Lanka, this is Unduvap Poya. 17 and 18.įor Hindus, this full Moon corresponds with the Datta Jayanti festival, commemorating the birthday of the Hindu god Dattatreya (Datta). In 2021 the earliest evenings with a full Moon in the sky will be on Friday and Saturday, Dec. Because the Moon rises at a time that the children, they can see it, because they’re not in bed, and they might even be outside like we are right now.” Henry told me of this and I thought it a perfect name. When she saw the rising full Moon, she said: “You know what this Moon is called? It’s called a Child Moon. Two years ago, then 7-year-old Astrid Hattenbach was walking home from school with her father Henry Throop (a friend and former coworker at NASA Headquarters). These early sunsets with the full Moon in the sky could make this the Child Moon. ![]() 18 to 19, 2021, the Moon will be in the sky for a total of 15 hours 33 minutes, with 14 hours 34 minutes of this when the Sun is down, making this the longest full Moon night of the year. For the Washington, D.C., area, on Saturday evening into Sunday morning, Dec. When the path of the Sun appears lowest in the sky for the year, the path of the full Moon opposite the Sun appears highest in the sky. The plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth nearly matches the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The term "druid" may derive from the Proto-Indo-European roots for "oak" and "to see," suggesting "druid" means "oak knower" or "oak seer."Īs the full Moon closest to the winter solstice, this will be the Long Night Moon. Some believe that the Oak Moon name ties back to ancient druid traditions of harvesting mistletoe from oak trees, a practice first recorded by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the 1st century CE. In the 10th Century King Haakon I associated Yule with Christmas as part of the Christianization of Norway, and this association spread throughout Europe. Yule is a 3-day winter solstice festival celebrated in pre-Christian Europe. Other names are the Frost Moon, for the frosts as winter nears, or the Winter Moon.Īs the full Moon before the winter solstice, old European names for this Moon include the Moon before Yule and the Oak Moon. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in December, this is called the Cold Moon due to the long, cold nights. Over time these names have become widely known and used. The Maine Farmers' Almanac began publishing Native American names for full Moons in the 1930s. The Moon will appear full for three days around this time, from Friday evening through Monday morning, making this a full Moon weekend. 19 because they are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Most commercial calendars will show this full Moon on Sunday, Dec. This is close enough to midnight that it will be on Sunday from Venezuela, Bolivia, Manaus, and Canada's Atlantic time zones eastward across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia to the International Date Line. 18, 2021, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 11:36 p.m. The next full Moon will be on Saturday night, Dec. The next full Moon is the Cold, Frost, and Winter Moon the Moon before Yule and the Oak Moon the Long Night Moon the Child Moon the Datta Jayanti and Thiruvathira Festivals Moon Unduvap Poya and the Chang'e Moon. ![]()
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