Image credit: Stefano De Rosa
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This year’s Hunter’s Moon fell during the night Tuesday night – October 11/12 – for us in the U.S.
We asked you to send us your moon images or post them to the EarthSky Facebook page. Thank you! There were so many, many fantastic images of this year’s Hunter’s Moon, shining down on us all around the world. Here are 20 of them. Enjoy!
Plus, have a look at the gallery of your images of last month’s Harvest moon.
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These are all so beautiful! Thanks for including mine too! (#7)
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On Thursday 14th October at about 3 am in south eastern Australia, I saw the brightest moon I’ve ever seen in sixty years. It was so bright I couldn’t look at it for too long. But it wasn’t just the moon, the whole northern part of the sky was breathtakingly beautiful. Of course with such a moon, the sky was a beautiful shining blue, and only a few stars were visible, but the stars that were visible were so brilliant and, I realise now, the really amazingly large ones were planets. But even more, there were long wispy clouds like great feathers rising up from the horizon in the north east. I stayed looking for many minutes but the cold sent me inside. When I went back out some minutes later, everything was still pretty much the same but the incredible brilliance was gone. I assume some rare and fleeting combination of factors (the clarity of the air? the qualities of the moisture in the air?) played together to provide that shining brilliance which I had seen for those few minutes.
It felt like being in space.
Anna
Oops! Thursday 13th October 2011 (not 14th)
Anna
That sounds beautiful! Thank you for telling us about it.
Thanks Deborah, I guess I was curious to know if anyone could explain the unusual brillliance of the moon, but maybe I should go to a forum to ask questions… thanks again
Fantastick pictures.I now have some new screensavers.Thanks to all.