toggle audio on and off change volume download audio Look up Monday night — the moon’s putting on a show. WTOP Space Guy Greg Redfern joined us earlier here on WTOP to talk about what makes this so special. (WTOP)

Let’s hope for clear skies Monday night as we will want to see a nice celestial event: a full harvest supermoon .

The harvest full moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox which happened last month. Usually, the harvest moon is in September but this year October has the closest full moon on Monday at 11:48 p.m.

In days gone by, farmers used the light of the full moon to harvest their crops — plus, there’s a lot folklore about the harvest full moon .

The term “supermoon” has made its way into every day usage but it is not an astrono

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