Harvest Moon Trail
Harvest Moon Trail
Famed in festival, story, and song the best known full moon is the Harvest Moon.
For northern hemisphere dwellers that's a traditional name of the full moon nearest the September equinox.
Seen from Saunderstown, Rhode Island, planet Earth, this Harvest Moon left a broad streak of warm hues as it rose through a twilight sky over the Newport Bridge.
On September 20 its trail was captured in a single 22 minute exposure using a dense filter and a digital camera.
Only two days later the September equinox marked a change of season and the beginning of autumn in the north.
In fact, recognizing a season as the time between solstice and equinox, this Harvest Moon was the fourth full moon of the season, coming just before the astronomical end of northern summer.
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