In Photos: 2024’s Final Supermoon Lights Up Night Sky Around The World

November’s full moon, the “Beaver Moon,” rose in a blaze of color on Saturday night as the year’s final supermoon.

Here are the best images of the full moon from around the globe:

November’s full moon is named the Beaver Moon, but it’s also called the “Mourning Moon” and the “Frost Moon.”

It turned full at 21:28 UTC/4:28 p.m. EST on Friday, Nov. 15, but the best time to watch it rise was at moonrise on Saturday, Nov. 16.

As it appeared above the eastern horizon just after sunset, it coincided with the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower.

From Earth’s perspective, the full moon is the lunar phase when the moon appears fully illuminated by the sun. However, it’s always 50% lit by the sun – it’s just that we can only ever see one face of the moon.

The moon shows only one face to us because it is tidally locked to Earth, rotating just once during its 27.3-day orbit. That’s the length of one day on the moon.

Since the Earth and the moon are also orbiting the sun the length of time between two full moons is 29.5 days.

At 224,853 miles (361,866 kilometers) from Earth, the Beaver Moon was the third-smallest of 2024’s four supermoons.

A supermoon is an astrological term for a perigee full moon, which is slightly bigger and brighter than the average full moon.

Since the moon’s orbital path around Earth is a slight ellipse, there’s a near-point (perigee) and a far-point (apogee) every month. A supermoon can appear to be about 10% larger in apparent size.

The next full moon after the Beaver Moon will be the full “Cold Moon” at 9:01 UTC/4:01 a.m. ET on Sunday, December 15 — the third full moon of fall and the final of the 12 full moons in 2024.

The final full moon of 2024, the Beaver Moon will reach higher into the sky than any other full moon of the year.

Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.