Here we see last night’s full Hunter’s Moon “rising” yellow from behind a wooded island in Blue Hill Bay.
It’s our dirty atmosphere that discolors and distorts the moon as we see it rise initially from a flatter perspective. Below, as you’ll see, it turns silver to us as it gets higher and we view it through less of the lower atmosphere. (That hump on the left is Acadia National Park.)
The October full moon reportedly was named by Native Americans to commemorate the period after the harvest when they would hunt deer and other animals scavenging in the newly cleared fields.
Curiously, this Hunter’s Moon occurred during Maine’s bow- hunting season for deer (October 2-29). Guess what was the weapon of choice for many Native Americans when hunting deer before the Europeans arrived? (Images taken from Flye Point in Brooklin, Maine, on October 20, 2021.)