Don't miss Monday's harvest moon shortly after sunset

Look for the harvest moon shortly after sunset on Monday

San Diego Union-Tribune

Sept. 20, 2021 2:08 PM PT

In a sign that autumn is nearly here, San Diego County will experience a beautiful harvest moon on Monday shortly after sunset occurs at 6:48 p.m. Look off to the east, and low to the horizon. The best time to see it, and the prime moment to take photographs, will happen about 13 minutes after sunset. There are some clouds offshore. But weak Santa Ana winds are blowing from the east, which should keep skies clear for most of the evening, says the National Weather Service.

The autumnal equinox will occur at 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Gary Robbins

Gary Robbins has been a journalist for nearly 50 years and currently covers science and higher education for The San Diego Union-Tribune. He joined the paper in April 2010 after working for 25 years at the Orange County Register, where he was science editor. Robbins was born and raised in Maine and attended Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 1978. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT during the 2000-01 academic year and a science writer fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 2001. He can be reached at 714-642-5218.

Don’t miss Monday’s harvest moon shortly after sunset