What perfect spooky timing!
From CNET:
In the bizarre year that is 2020, another highly unusual event is coming our way. This year’s Halloween full moon will be visible to the entire world, rather than just parts of it, for the first time since World War II, according to astronomy educator and former planetarium director Jeffrey Hunt.
“When I was teaching, my high school students thought a full moon occurred every Halloween,” Hunt told me. Not quite, though pop culture decorations sure make it seem that way. The last Halloween full moon visible around the globe came in 1944, he said. He’s written about the event on his web site, When the Curves Line Up. There was a Halloween full moon for some locations in 1955, but that didn’t include western North America and the western Pacific, Hunt says.
While this year’s Halloween full moon will be visible in all parts of the globe, that doesn’t mean every single citizen will have a view. Residents across both North America and South America will see it, as will India, all of Europe and much of Asia. But while Western Australians will see it, those in the central and eastern parts of the country will not.
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