(Tips) Moon viewing during Mid-Autumn Festival 2024
This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Sept. 17 (Tuesday). Weather permitting, a bright and round "super moon" will be visible in close proximity to Saturn, both observable with the naked eye at night during the Festival period.
To facilitate moon viewing by the public, Hong Kong Observatory lists the times of moonrise, transit, moonset, and full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival period in the table. At transit, the moon passes the local meridian, reaching its highest elevation for the night due south.
Although the full moon will occur on the morning of the day following the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon will be near the perigee (the closest point to the Earth) at a distance of around 357,400km on the Festival and the following day. The diameter of the moon as observed through naked eyes from the earth will appear around 7% larger than that seen when the moon is at an average distance from the Earth. While a partial lunar eclipse will be visible from South America, most parts of North America, Europe, Africa and western Asia during the full moon, the phenomenon will not be visible in Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
The Hong Kong Space Museum will also webcast the images of the Moon and share the tips to observe the Moon, its mysteries, and introduce the astronomical phenomenon "Saturn-Moon Conjunction".
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