Tonight was the night of the the biggest Super Moon seen in the sky since 2007, and as driving towards Arnprior, it absolutely beamed in the night sky in clear conditions.

Also known as a Hunter’s Moon, the Super Moon will be up and at it for most of the week, but dependant upon the amount of cloud cover above where you happen to be. In fact it’s tomorrow, October 17 that will feature the moon appearing to be at its largest, so that makes tomorrow’s moon the true Hunter Moon for astronomy purists. The full moon will be at its perigee of orbit around Earth, meaning that the full moon seen will be at its closest to the planet it orbits around. That’s us!

But that’s not all. Other events will be taking place up there, including the possibility of making a sighting of the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, something not seen with the naked eye all that often. If you miss it, not to worry. It’ll swing back this way again in some 80,000 years, so plenty of time to prepare for your next viewing attempt. I can’t remember an easily visible comet in the sky since Hale-Bopp back in 1997, and before that Halley’s Comet in the mid-1980’s. Both were impressive, once-in-a-lifetime events.

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