Are you ready for The Full Moon Fever? The full moon occurs on September 20,

[abqtommy]

2021 at 5:54 PM in Albuquerque, NM (U.S. Mountain Daylight Saving Time)
Have a howling good time!

https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/

The Full Moon in the month of September in the Old Farmer's Almanac is called Harvest Moon, which corresponds with the Old English/Anglo-Saxon name, while other names are Corn Moon or Full Corn Moon or Barley Moon.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/full-moon-names.html

[elleng]

1. @ 7:55 p.m. EDT!

ALMOST:

[ronatchig]

4. John barley corn must die!!

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[rickyhall]

17. My thought exactly. Weird...

[Hekate]

22. Love that song

[bobnicewander]

2. Owooooooo!

I vant to drink your blood. Heh, heh, heh.

[2naSalit]

7. No no no...

That's next month!

[Vinca]

3. That explains it. My cat was nuts all night and he's still going nuts this morning.

[DemocraticPatriot]

5. I'm ready for some Full Moon Fever...

I miss Tom.

[llmart]

8. +1

Many moons ago (pardon the pun) when I gave birth to my first child, the nurses in the delivery room told me that usually they had 5 births a day, but on the night I gave birth it was a full moon and there were twice that many women in labor that evening.

They used to say it was because of the full moon.

[DET]

19. Ditto

Same thing happened to me. When I was pregnant I toured the hospital and was told that I’d have the run of the maternity ward since they were never very full. On the day of the scheduled birth (c-section), there had been a full moon the night before and the maternity ward was swamped. I had to be prepped for surgery in a storage room.

[llmart]

27. What a great story.

It just occurred to me this morning after rereading this post that that first child of mine is now a software engineer at NASA working on the next moon landing!

[sts069]

9. Not quite

Tides are an effect of the differential pull of gravity on large objects (large like the Earth), not magnetism. Human beings are far too small for any kind of tidal effect.

Also, there’s nothing to the old belief of the full moon changing people’s behavior, except maybe that there’s more light for people to be out and about at night. (Anecdotally, I spent 15 years as a firefighter/EMT and never observed such a difference.)

Fun fact about the full Moon: it’s about four times as bright as one would expect, because of the innumerable tiny beads of glass in the lunar regolith, formed by billions of years of meteorite impacts. They act as a blanket of retroreflectors, reflecting the incident sunlight directly back at us, much like the beads embedded in reflective highway paint.

[sts069]

13. Well, let's take another look

You did say anyone who worked in certain fields (and I think we agree fire/EMS qualifies) could attest to the effect. I attested the opposite from my direct experience. If you like, I can dig up some studies in place of anecdotes.

I will stipulate that people in some fields, like mental health, may see people respond differently because those folks think they should be affected by the full Moon. That idea is certainly ingrained in our collective consciousness. But humans are too small to be affected by tides on an individual basis, that is, the tidal force on an individual human body is vanishingly small.

It’s simply not true that tides can have any effect on human blood cells due to salt/ions. Tides are an effect of differential gravity, not electromagnetism. And in any case, the Moon has no organized magnetic field.

That said, the full Moon sure was beautiful last night. I’m sure we can agree on that. Now it’s a full Sun again, so off to work… hope you have a good day.

[niyad]

12. Anybody who worked/works in a casino or bar can verify that.

[niyad]

23. Love full moons!

[Igel]

18. No, the salinity of human blood and sea water are not the same.

Blood: 0.9%
Seawater: 3.5%

If you had the option of buying something for $90 or $350 and your friend said, "Hey, they're the same price!" you'd dolt-slap them.

The original claim, before the game of Telephone intervened with 3.5 million players, was that the salinity of life was about the same as the salinity of sea water *when life emerged from the oceans." Whenever that was. Opinions varied.

That's a 1960s fact--at least that's about the time I heard it.

But once a fact, always a fact. Now, about phlogiston being the source of heat and fire ... I mean, phlogiston was deemed a fact. What? In the 1760s?

Note that full moons are not necessarily closer to the Earth--both magnetic fields and gravitational fields are dependent on distance.

But full moons are brighter. I'd never go for a walk during a full moon; many a night I've walked during a full moon.

Most of the rest fails statistical analysis. What's left is mostly confirmation bias.

It's like the constant news stories about upticks in depression and suicides at Xmas. Except that there isn't any. But every year we insist on recycling garbage.

[abqtommy]

10. Does The Moon And Other Planets' Gravitational Force Impact Earth?

Short answer: The sun and the moon have the greatest tidal effects on the earth.

Long answer: see the link:

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/does-the-moons-and-other-planets-gravitational-force-impact-earth.html

And keep on howling; I know I will!

[Wicked Blue]

14. My 5-year-old granddaughter drew a werewolf yesterday

and then she let out a bloodcurdling wolf howl.


This moon may be having a more powerful effect than people realize.

[LeftInTX]

15. No "harvest" moon down here

It's still too hot...LOL

[mnhtnbb]

24. I just went out to look and it's mostly obscured

by clouds.

Did hear the coyotes briefly a couple of hours ago. They must be pissed that there is no moonlight to help them hunt tonight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Hot off the press! Er.....something like that. Just took this tonight, about 30 minutes ago. Enjoy!

[abqtommy]

26. Thanks! That's great!

[llmart]

28. Just beautiful.

Thanks from someone in Michigan where it was cloudy and sprinkles. We're also in for torrential rain starting later today and all day tomorrow. So I appreciate your beautiful photo.

[betsuni]

29. My husband insisted we celebrate Tsukimi, the Japanese tradition of harvest moon viewing.

For the first time. He's feeling weird about tearing down his dead parents house to build a new one, afraid the ancestors will be mad so he's following old customs to try to appease them, just in case.

He bought rice dumplings, I gathered pampas grass (fabulous viewed in front of the full moon) from a vacant lot and stuck them in an empty bottle of Aki-aji, Kirin's special autumn beer with a very pretty autumn leaf label, as a vase. Collected autumn produce like squash and sweet potatoes.

He asked me how things were supposed to be arranged for a proper Tsukimi, but he's the Japanese one. How would I know! You're supposed to have a special little wooden thing to display the dumplings. A plastic container will have to do.

It's raining now so I guess the moon-viewing won't happen tonight. At least I saw the moon last night, drifting in and out of ragged clouds. Beautiful.