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                              2023 September 30
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                         A Harvest Moon over Tuscany
              Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Antonio Tartarini

   Explanation: For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon
   was [5]the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset, it rises
   behind cypress trees huddled on a hill top in Tuscany, Italy in this
   telephoto view from September 28. Famed in festival, story, and song,
   Harvest Moon is just the traditional name of the full moon nearest the
   [6]autumnal equinox. According to lore the name is a fitting one.
   Despite the diminishing daylight hours as the [7]growing season drew to
   a close, farmers could harvest crops by the light of a full moon
   [8]shining on from dusk to dawn. This Harvest Moon was also known to
   some as a supermoon, a term becoming a traditional name for a [9]full
   moon near perigee. It was the fourth and final supermoon [10]for 2023.

       Note: [11]Non-NASA APOD mirror sites will be updated if the US
                            goverment shuts down.
                  Tomorrow's picture: new moon near apogee
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    Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([26]UMCP)
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                           & [33]Michigan Tech. U.

References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2309/HarvestMoonNest.jpg
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/giabar5insta [at] gmail []
   5. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/harvest-moon-2/
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
   7. https://www.instagram.com/p/CxyAMAOseA0/?img_index=1
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On,_Harvest_Moon
   9. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/922/what-is-a-supermoon/
  10. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-a-supermoon/
  11. https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=43353
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230929.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=230930
  22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231001.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  26. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  28. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  29. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  30. https://www.nasa.gov/
  31. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  32. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  33. http://www.mtu.edu/