USA | Allegheny Mountains | Full Hunter’s Moon

Monday, October 26
Moonset: 8:15 am  / Azimuth 294º WSW
Moonrise: 6:21 pm / Azimuth 63° ESE
100% Full Moon at 12:13 am; Thereafter Waning Gibbous Moon / 99% / Distance at 6:21 pm: 227,751 miles
Sunrise: 7:38 am / Azimuth  106º
Sunset: 6:21 pm / Azimuth 254º

Length of Day: 10 hours,  42 minutes, 59 seconds / 2 minutes 24 seconds shorter than yesterday

An immense slow-moving area of high pressure had sat over the northeastern United States since about October 17–18. On October 18 the National Weather Service said "persistent high pressure over the Northeast U.S. would bring an extended dry stretch, and that the dry spell could last into the final week of October.” Indeed there was not a cloud in the sky from the 18th to the 23rd and a spell of glorious Autumn weather set in.  Around noon on the 23rd some big clouds rolled in, however, and I thought the period of clear skies might be over, but by mid-afternoon the clouds had disappeared completely, leaving again almost totally clear skies

Mid-day on the 23rd. Stratocumulus clouds, top, with some more distinctly separated cumulus clouds on the horizon

Local Farmers used the clear weather to get in one last crop of hay

The cloudless skies continued through the 25th; the Full Moon occurred at 12:13 am on the 26th. On the evening of the 26th the moon rose and the sun set at exactly the same time: 6:21 pm, thus although the Moon was already actually waning (99% Waning Gibbous Moon) the evening of the 26th still qualified as the night of the Full Moon.

Although the official moonrise was at 6:21 (on a level horizon) the Full Moon did not actually peep above the Allegheny Front until 6:29 pm.

Full Moon at 6:35 pm

The Full Moon finally cleared the crest of the Alleghenies at 6:38 pm

Full Moon at 6:42 pm

The Moon Goddess Artemis. I stayed up all night waiting for a visit from her but she failed to show up. Women! Maybe next month.