The Hunter's Moon

The Hunter's Moon, also known as October’s full moon, is the third of 2024's four supermoons and the brightest of the year

Toronto Partial Lunar Eclipse on Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)

Summer Solstice 2024 (Solar Term-夏至)

The June 21 Full moon is the Strawberry Moon on the Summer Solstice 2024 (Solar Term-夏至)

Full Moon cum Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Toronto, Ontario

The Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Full Moon (100%) in March happens to be the Worm Moon (which can also be referred to as the Crow Moon, the Sugar Moon and the Sap Moon).

The 2nd Full Super Moon on August 30-31

The August 30 Blue Moon will light the sky around it, blotting out all but the brightest stars. But look carefully in the bright moonlight.

2023 August 1 First Full Supermoon

Canada to see rare blue supermoon and it won't happen again until 2037

The 1st full supermoon is on August 1, and the 2nd full supermoon is on August 30-31, 2923

July Supermoon

August will have two supermoons (including a blue supermoon) and September will have one supermoon.

2022 February Full Moon (99.7%) on Lunar New Year Lantern Festival 元宵節）

2022 January 17-18 Full Moon Post Toronto Snowstorm

 

Solstice Falls on The Lunar 21st (冬至)

 The Last Full Moon of 2021Winter Solstice

2021 Aug 21 Blue Moon, Jupiter Southeast

 Blue Moon and Jupiter are visible near one another on August 22, 2021

2019 Sep 14 Mid-Autumn Festival Full Moon

2019 Feb 19 Super Full Moon

Total Lunar Eclipse 2018

The full moon on the night of July 27-28, 2018, presents the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century (2001 to 2100). 

During the long lunar eclipse, the moon will turn red from sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere onto the moon’s surface. And Mars will be near the moon, exceptionally bright. Red moon, Red Mars! 

The Moon was below the horizon during this eclipse, so it was not possible to view it in Toronto.

Full Strawberry Moonset on June 29

The Final Full Moon of Spring 2018 May 29-30

The Final Full Moon of Spring 2018 (Between March Equinox and June Solstice)

 2018年春季最後的满月(在春分和夏至之間)

2018 March 30-31 2nd Blue Moon

2018 March 31 full moon is the second and final Blue Moon of this year. A Blue Moon is defined as the second of two full moons to occur in one calendar month. January had two full moons, and March does too. It is quite rare to have two Blue Moons in a single calendar year of 2018 (It last happened in 1999) and it won’t happen again until 2037.

2018年3月31日滿月是今年的第二個也是最後一個藍月亮。 藍月亮被定義為在一個日曆月內發生的兩個滿月中的第二個月。 一月有兩個滿月, 而三月也有。 在2018年的一個歷年裡有兩個藍月相當罕見（最後一次發生在1999年）, 直到2037年才會再次發生。

2018 March 2 First Full Moon

Spring Lantern Festival aka Chinese Valentine's Day (元宵節), is traditionally a day for couples. The Lantern Festival marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the close of the Lunar Chinese New Year.

January 31 1st of 2 Blue Moons in 2018

Partial Lunar Eclipse on the Beginning of Autumn (立秋)

2016 Nov 15 Closest Moonset Since 1948

2016 Nov 13-14 Super-rare Supermoon

The full moon of November 14, 2016 is not only the biggest, closest and brightest supermoon of this year. It is our satellite's closest approach to Earth in since January 1948, 68 years ago.

For us in the North Americas, the moon is closer to full on the night of November 13.

99% Illuminated

99.4% Illuminated

2016 June 19 The Strawberry Moon on Father's Day

The moon you’ll see during the night tonight is closer to full than tomorrow night’s solstice full moon.

First Full Moon on Christmas since 1977

The December 25, 2015 full moon is the Western Hemisphere’s first full moon on Christmas Day since 1977. We won’t have another full moon on a Christmas Day until 2034.

2015 August 28 First of 3 Full Supermoons

The full moon of August 29, 2015 will be the first of this year’s three full supermoons. It’s a full moon near its closest point to Earth for the month.

Blue Moon of July 2015

First of two July full moons falls on night of July 1, 2015, the second one is popularly called a Blue Moon and it will fall on July 31, 2015

2015 June 2 The Strawberry Moon

From North America, we can’t see the moon at the exact instant of full moon because it turns full during our daylight hours.

千年一遇！春分；超級月亮；日全食（ 多倫多看不到）

2015 March 20 is the Chinese Lunar New Year's "Equinox" (春分), while the West is the First Day of Spring. On this particular day, some residents in the northern hemisphere is expected to see the Super Moon and Solar Eclipse (日全食) occurs at the same time. But most Canadians can see the Full Moon, but can not see a Total Solar Eclipse, only Europe, North Africa and Asia, in some places people can see it.

2014 Sep 8 Super Harvest Moon

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that falls the closest to autumnal equinox. 

Most “super” supermoon of 2014 on Aug 9-10

Brightest supermoon 100% visible

The moon will not be so close again until the full moon of September 28, 2015. In other words, it’s not just a supermoon. It’s the closest supermoon of 2014.

In 2014, the August 10 full moon also gives us this year’s closest supermoon. According to NASA, this full moon will be 14% closer and 30% brighter than other full moons of the year.

In both the evening and morning sky, try watching for Earth’s shadow. It is a deep blue-grey, the pink band above the shadow is called the Belt of Venus.

Earth’s shadow can be seen any clear evening ascending in the eastern sky at the same rate that the sun sets below the western horizon.

The penumbral eclipse of the Hunter’s Moon on October 18

A penumbral eclipse is a very, very subtle kind of eclipse.

Harvest Moon 2013 中秋節快樂

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that falls the closest to autumnal equinox, which in 2013 comes on September 22

2013 August 21 A Seasonal Blue Moon

Most often, a season only has three full moons, so a Blue Moon by this definition only comes 7 times in 19 calendar years.   A season is defined as the period of time between a solstice (夏至) and an equinox (秋分), or vice versa. 

The moon is visible in orange color due to the light reflection from the evening sunset