Full Harvest Supermoon appears tonight - what skywatchers should know
- Lori Lee WGOLV
- Oct 6
- 4 min read
The first supermoon of 2025 will take to the sky tonight, October 6, 2025, marking it the first of three this year.
According to USA Today, this will take place on or around midnight Eastern Time when the full moon will be situated opposite the sun, so the direct sunlight lights it up.
The moon will also be closer to Earth than it is all year - a phenomenon known as a perigee, which makes it appear 30% brighter and up to 14% larger than normal.
According to Space.com, the event is dubbed the “Harvest Moon” because it occurs closest to the fall equinox, historically helping guide farmers as they harvested the last of the summer cornucopia before the cold weather arrived.
The Harvest Moon will peak at around 11:47 p.m., but will be visible again on Tuesday as well.
When to watch for the Supermoon:
It will be particularly full around moonrise at 6:08 p.m. due to a phenomenon called “moon illusion,” in which our mind is fooled into thinking our natural satellite is larger than it is because we have no foreground objects for reference. If you have a chance, step outside to take a look.
In the hour following moonrise, the supermoon will be tinted orangeish-yellow because of Earth’s atmosphere scattering the blue light reflecting from its surface, while allowing longer, redder wavelengths through.
Skies are expected to be clear for the tri-state area, according to the National Weather Service.
It should be a great night for viewing the Supermoon.
Stargazers can catch the phenomenon two more times before the end of the year - the “Beaver Moon” on November 5 and December 4th’s "Cold Moon".
“I would encourage people to go out and look at the moon, not just Monday or Tuesday, but later in the week, over the course of a month, over several months, to notice changes in the moon,” said Noah Petro, project scientist for NASA’s Artemis III mission, which aims to land astronauts near the moon’s south pole in 2027.
The phenomenon is “an annual, worldwide event when moon enthusiasts come together to enjoy our natural satellite,” NASA declared in its video “What’s Up: October 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA.”
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