{"id":17196,"date":"2012-12-28T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17196"},"modified":"2012-12-28T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:26:40","slug":"full-moon-tonight-facts-about-2012s-last-lunar-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/full-moon-tonight-facts-about-2012s-last-lunar-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon Tonight: Facts About 2012&#8217;s Last Lunar Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/full-moon-tonight-facts-about-2012s-last-lunar-show\/full-moon-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17197\" title=\"full moon\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/full-moon-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/full-moon-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/full-moon.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The final full moon of the year rises tonight to cap a year of amazing lunar sky shows. While the bright moon will\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/19056-last-full-moon-facts-2012.html#\" rel=\"nofollow\">easily<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook0icon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0outshine other celestial objects, there is more than meets the eye to Earth&#8217;s nearest neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/19037-last-full-moon-rises-friday.html\">December full moon<\/a>\u00a0is also called the &#8220;long-night&#8217;s moon&#8221; since it is the closest full moon to the northern winter solstice (when the nights are longest). And indeed tonight&#8217;s full moon will be visible for the longest amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>From New York for instance, moonrise on Thursday (Dec. 27) occurred at 4:17 p.m. EST and the moon sets at 7:12 a.m. this morning. So the full moon will indeed be in the sky for a long time: 14 hours and 55 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/16841-full-moon-why-does-it-happen-how-does-it-affect-us-video.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/16841-full-moon-why-does-it-happen-how-does-it-affect-us-video.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final full moon of the year rises tonight to cap a year of amazing lunar sky shows. While the bright moon will\u00a0easily\u00a0outshine other celestial objects, there is more than&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}