You know Mid-Autumn Festival is near when mooncakes start hitting the shelves
Updated 5 years ago · Published on 08 Oct 2021 10:00AM
A full moon rises behind the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. – SADIQ ASYRAF/The Vibes pic, October 8, 2021
by Mohd Hazli ‘Bobo’ Hassan
KUALA LUMPUR – This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on September 21, saw Malaysians celebrating by eating mooncake, enjoying the bright full moon, and taking part in lantern parades.
For foodies, the excitement begins prior to the festival, with shops selling a wide variety of mooncakes of all shapes, sizes and flavours.
For astrophotography enthusiasts, it is also the perfect time to capture a full moon, also known as the Harvest Moon.
A Harvest Moon can occur anywhere between two weeks before or after the autumnal equinox depending on the year, and is either the last full moon of the summer season or the first in autumn.
The autumnal equinox takes place on September 22 in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Harvest Moon occurs in March or early April in the Southern Hemisphere.
The last appearance of the Harvest Moon was earlier this year on March 28, and the next will be on March 18, 2022.
The Vibes shutterbug SADIQ ASYRAF joined photographers across the world in soaking up the moonlight last month. – The Vibes, October 8, 2021
A full moon illuminating KL Tower on September 21. – SADIQ ASYRAF/The Vibes pic, October 8, 2021A full moon peeping out from behind the Petronas Twin Towers shortly after dusk. – SADIQ ASYRAF/The Vibes pic, October 8, 2021French highline walker Nathan Paulin teetering on a 670m-long, 70m-high slackline between the Eiffel Tower and Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris recently. – SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A full moon seen from an observation deck in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. – PHILIP FONG/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A plane silhouetted against a full moon in Moscow. – KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A full moon behind Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the Russian capital. – KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP, October 8, 2021Hanoi wakes up to a still-visible full moon at dawn on September 21. – MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A firefighting plane extinguishing a forest fire on the Jerusalem mountains near the Israeli village of Moshav Shoresh recently. – AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A woman holding a child as they watch the full moon rise over the southern Iraqi city of Basra. – HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP pic, October 8, 2021A woman holding a child in front of a moon installation during the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in Yangzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. – AFP pic, October 8, 2021The intense beauty of the moon captured using a telephoto lens. – SADIQ ASYRAF/The Vibes pic, October 8, 2021
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