Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Monday, October 29th.  The sun will rise at 8:16.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 18 minutes, setting at 6:34.   The moon, at full today, will rise at 6:24 this evening.

The full moon tonight is the full Hunters Moon.  As down as I am about full moons due to the fact that they light up the sky and flood out the dimmer objects in the sky, I once and a while stop and view it.  The time of the full moon is about 3 this afternoon, so when it rises tonight we will be looking at the moon from very nearly the direction of the sun, so there will be few shadows to be had.  Last week I talked about the crater Tycho near the bottom or south end of the moon and its long rays of ejecta.  The full moon is the best time to see these rays, which are easily visible in binoculars, through which Tycho itself looks like a bright dot.  In telescopes Tycho looks like a small bright ring.  The full moon is super bright.  It’s daytime there.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum

Photographed with a Celestron 9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Acquired with a Canon EOS Rebel T1i (EOS 500D), 20 images stacked to reduce noise. 200 ISO 1/640 sec. Gregory H. Revera

Tycho and its rays are prominent in the photo above.  I found this image in the article Moon in Wikipedia.