Next Full Moon, Peterborough Ontario Canada!?

Question

Just wondering when the next full moon is for Ontario Canada!

Answer 1

The full moon is the same date for everyone, not just Ontario.  The moon is not a local phenomenon.

The next full moon is July 18.

This site is a good reference for moon phases:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPh...

Sorry, should have said that this date is in Universal Time (and the time for full moon is 07:59 UTC).  

UTC is the accepted international time - very simplistically, the 07:59 means that full moon is at about 8 hours past midnight in Greenwich, England.  Since Peterborough is on EDT, and the difference between EDT and UTC is -4 hours, full moon for Ontario is around 4:00 am the morning of July 18 (which for most s still the night of July 17).

Wikipedia has a table of lunar phases as well, adjusted for Daylight Savings time: wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_lunar_phases

Answer 2

Hi Teresa!

The next full moon in Peterborough will be the evening of Thursday, July 17th.  The precise moment of the full moon happens in the small hours of the morning, at 4 a.m. Eastern Time of Friday the 18th, but since most people look for the full moon in the evening, the closest evening is Thursday the 17th.

One writer gave the 18th as the date, and that's technically correct, if you happen to be out and about at 4 a.m.  If you waited until the evening of the 18th, however, you'd be nearly a day late.  The correct evening in North America is Thursday July 17th.  

If you were in South Africa, Asia or Australia, the closest evening would indeed be that of the 18th, but because of the time difference, we in North America see it the evening of the 17th.  The moment of full moon comes during the appearance of the moon that rises the evening of the 17th.