The first full Moon of the year will take place this Monday evening is that of the Wolf. A name that comes from the United States and dates back to the 1930s.
The night will be far from dark this Monday, January 13. The evening will be marked by the full Wolf Moon, the first full Moon of the year 2025. The opportunity for astronomy enthusiasts to point their telescope towards the sky to admire the Earth’s satellite.
The name of this full moon comes from the Maine Farmers’ Almanac which “began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s,” NASA explains in an article published earlier this month.
A name for each full moon
“Over time, these names became widely known and used. According to this almanac, the January full moon is the Wolf Moon, after the packs of wolves that are heard howling outside villages in in the middle of the cold, deep snows of winter,” explains NASA.
There is a different name for this phenomenon that occurs approximately every month. The next one will be the Snow Moon, on February 12. Other terms originate from Native American tribes like the Super Beaver Moon.
This Monday evening, the full Moon will reach its maximum light from 11:26 p.m. But the hazy sky over a large part of northern France could prevent many from seeing it.
This full Moon is not a “super Moon”, a phenomenon that was observed last November. This term is used when a full moon coincides with the time when our natural satellite is at the point in its orbit closest to Earth.
