#MARCH FULL MOOM FULL#

It's due to a little trick of our mind known as The Moon Illusion. It's not something the Moon itself is doing, though. However, go out just after moonrise or just before moonset for what is usually an exceptional treat.

#MARCH FULL MOOM FULL#

Seeing the Full Moon at any time of night is a spectacular sight. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Scott Sutherland THE MAGNIFICENT MOON ILLUSION The March Full Moon compared to the farthest/smallest and closest/largest Full Moons of 2022. At that exact time, it will have moved slightly closer, to 380,878 km away, but it will still be the most average Full Moon of this year. It then turns full around 21 hours later, at precisely 3:21 a.m. EDT on March 17, when it is about 99 per cent full. It will reach a distance of 384,400 km sometime between 6 a.m. It was also the only micro-moon we'll see this year.Įach Full Moon after gets closer to Earth, leading up to the June supermoon and July perigee supermoon (the closest, largest, and brightest Full Moon of 2022).įor March, though, the Full Moon occurs at almost exactly at that average distance. In January, the Full Wolf Moon was the smallest Full Moon for all of 2022. A micro-moon is when a Full Moon is at least 401,000 km away, and they appear slightly smaller and dimmer than normal. These appear bigger and brighter in our sky. The Moon's average distance is 384,400 km, which is used as a unit of measurement out in space (1 Lunar Distance).Ī supermoon is a Full Moon that is closer than about 362,000 km. At its closest, it comes within roughly 356,350 kilometres of Earth, and at its farthest it gets out to around 406,725 km away. On the night of March 17-18, we will see just about the most 'average' Full Moon of 2022.Īs the Moon orbits around Earth, its path doesn't trace out a perfect circle.

Watch Below: See every view of the Moon for 2022 in under 5 minutes The Assiniboine, Lakota and Sioux peoples called it the 'sore eyes moon' - possibly a reference to sunlight reflecting off snow and ice, or perhaps referring to the beginning of seasonal allergies? For others, it was a time of hunting moose (the Abenaki) or catching fish (the Algonquin). Some First Nations peoples named the March Full Moon or lunation after animals, such as the goose (the Haida), the eagle (the Cree), the frog (the Omaha), or the crane (the Potawatomi). For some cultures, the name referred to the 'lunation' - the 29-day period between that Full Moon and the next one. Additionally, these names were not necessarily specifically for the Full Moon. Most of the listed Full Moon names are simplifications or loose translations of names and phrases from First Nations peoples, with some Colonial American names thrown in as well. 'In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver visited the Naudowessie (Dakota) and other Native American tribes and wrote that the name Worm Moon refers to a different sort of 'worm' - beetle larvae - which begin to emerge from the thawing bark of trees and other winter hideouts at this time.'

'However, more research revealed another explanation,' they added. 'For many years, we thought this name referred to the earthworms that appear as the soil warms in spring,' they wrote on their website. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Scott SutherlandĪs shown above, each Full Moon has a name, popularized by the various Farmers' Almanacs over the years.Īccording to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the March Full Moon is most commonly called the Full Worm Moon. This graphic collects all the relevant data about each Full Moon of 2022, including their popular names, whether they are a 'super' or 'micro' Moon, a perigee or apogee Full Moon, and whether they are remarkable in some other way (Eclipse, Blue Moon, or Harvest Moon). Throughout history, we have been obsessed with naming things. Check your local forecast to see if your sky conditions are right for viewing the night sky.

The Full Moon will be up all night, from sunset to sunrise, on the night of March 17-18. Eyes to the sky! If you have at least reasonably clear skies Thursday night, take a few moments to go out and see the Full Worm Moon.

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