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    WATCHING THE SKIES | Oct 13-19: The Hunter’s Moon

    LehighValleyNews.com | By Brad Klein
    Published October 13, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT
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    Watching the skies with Brad Klein

    BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire.

    This week, a look at the October moon.

    Watch for the full moon on Wednesday and Thursday nights, October 16 and 17. The October full moon is known as the Hunter’s moon.

    This moon also is a 'supermoon', a bit closer to Earth than average, and thus a bit bigger in the night sky.

    And this supermoon is actually, the largest of the year.

    Another reason to gaze at the growing moon this week; on Monday night, Oct. 14, the waxing gibbous moon can be used to find the planet, Saturn.

    “They're going to be visually close to each other. While they're many millions of miles apart, they'll appear close,” according to McGuire, “after sunset, if you look to the southeast.”

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    Brad Klein
    I was a founding member of the WLVR News team in 2019, bringing more than 20 years of experience in radio journalism, podcast, and video production. I’ve had a role in a number of long-running programs at NPR, MSNBC and WNYC. A founding producer of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” I played similar start-up roles for NPR’s Weekly Edition, MSNBC’s Edgewise, Public Radio International’s Satellite Sisters and even as a writer on one of the early pilot episodes of the news/comedy show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. I’ve also worked as a reporter, producer, and director for National Public Radio News programs including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. An avid naturalist, I lead educational programs for the American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
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