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**Headline: First Supermoon of 2025 to Illuminate Night Sky Monday**

**New York, NY –** Stargazers are in for a treat on Monday night as the first supermoon of 2025, also known as the Harvest Moon, will grace the sky. The full moon, closest to the autumnal equinox, will appear larger and brighter than usual as it reaches its closest point to Earth, a phenomenon known as perigee.

The Harvest Moon will be at its fullest around 11:48 p.m. ET on Monday, October 6th, and will remain highly visible into early Tuesday morning. While clear skies are ideal, NASA’s Artemis III mission project scientist, Noah Petro, suggests that even if Monday is cloudy, the moon will still appear remarkably full on Tuesday night.

Historically, the Harvest Moon’s extended period of bright light allowed farmers to work late into the night to complete their fall harvests. This year’s event kicks off a series of three consecutive supermoons.

“It’s a very subtle effect that you won’t always be able to notice unless you’re looking at the moon regularly,” Petro said. “And so 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.”

The Harvest Moon occurs shortly after NASA announced its newest class of astronauts who may one day journey to the Moon and Mars. Petro highlighted the significance of this supermoon in light of the upcoming Artemis II mission, scheduled for early next year, which will send a crew of four astronauts to orbit the Moon. “What makes the moon coming up on October 6 so special is what we learned (recently) — that Artemis II is launching to the moon early next year,” he stated, “and so we have an opportunity coming up very soon, to be able to not only have a moon that we look at but also a moon that’s got humans visiting it.”

In addition to the supermoons, keep an eye out for upcoming meteor showers in 2025. (See the Farmers’ Almanac and American Meteor Society for peak dates).

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