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Article: SHINE ON, SHINE ON; HARVEST MOON WILL BE UP IN THE SKY TONIGHT.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2004
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Byline: Brian Mannion Contributing writer
The harvest moon will rise over the Northern Hemisphere tonight, not that the special name means much to most people these days.
"Our culture is kind of cut off from the moon," said Raymond Dague, chairman of the Syracuse Astronomical Society's Darling Hill Observatory in Vesper. "Most of us modern people don't give a hoot if the moon's even there."
But harvest is the "very practical" modifier that agrarian societies attached to the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, Dague said.
The name goes way back, he said, back before electricity, back, perhaps, before the Roman Empire.
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