The first full moon of the new year rose fuzzy and burly yesterday over cloudy Mount Desert Island. It was about 258,855 feet from earth at the time.
Once it arose above our murky atmosphere, it became more moon-like:
The January full moon traditionally is known as the Wolf Moon because it arises at the best of time year to hear wolves howl at night, according to the Farmers’ Almanac collection of Native and Colonial American moon names. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 25, 2024.)