One of the brightest moons of the year will illuminate Saskatchewan tonight and tomorrow morning as the second of three supermoons will be visible. This supermoon is called the “beaver moon” because it occurs at the same time when most beavers begin to take shelter in their lodge for the winter after they’ve collected all the food they’ll require.
According to scientists, the full moon will look 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter due to it’s proximity to Earth, which is estimated to be about 357,000 kilometers away from our planet. Typically, a supermoon only looks about 7 per cent bigger, but this week’s moon will appear much larger and brighter than usual experts say.
The beaver supermoon will be visible starting tonight and will be at its biggest and brightest at 7:19 Wednesday morning.
The first supermoon of the year, the harvest moon, took place in October and the next supermoon is set for December. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the beaver moon is sometimes called the “frost moon” by the Cree and Assiniboine Indigenous peoples while the Anishinaabe refer to it as the “freezing moon.”
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