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Full Moon Tomorrow @ 1:09 PM EDT - But Tonight the moon looks full but it is still waxing - People in North America will see a full-looking waxing moon tonight, and a full-looking waning moon tomorrow night. To an astronomer, full moon lasts only a well-defined instant, when the moon is most opposite the sun for the month. In the lingo of astronomers, the moon is full when it resides 180o from the sun in celestial (ecliptic) longitude. By this standard astronomical definition, the moon turns full on March 16, 2014, at 17:09 UTC, or 1:09 p.m. EDT. At this juncture, it’ll be shortly before sunrise for Alaska’s Aleution Islands, midday for the eastern North America, sunset for eastern Europe and Africa, and the middle of the night for Mongolia. It’ll be after midnight (on March 17) for Australia and New Zealand. earthsky.org/tonight/moon-looks-full-but-is-still-waxing-on-night-of-march-15-16
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:33:41 +0000

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