January full moon 2022: The 'Wolf Moon' rises with winter constellations

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The full moon of January, known as the Full Wolf Moon, arrives Monday, Jan. 17, at 6:48 p.m. EST (1148 GMT).

is only about 5 degrees up. To see either one would need a very flat western horizon and very clear weather. By 5:52 p.m. in New York Mercury sets; Saturn follows at 6:08 p.m. local time. Jupiter, meanwhile, sets at 7:52 p.m., so it should be visible in mid-northern latitudes until about 7:30 p.m. local time before it is likely to be behind a building or a tree. , meanwhile, rises at 5:13 a.m. on Jan. 18, in New York, and is just visible in the predawn sky — by 6 a.m.

According to the Ontario Native Literacy Project, the Cree, whose traditional territory extended from what is now Quebec to Alberta and surrounded Hudson's Bay, called the January lunation Opawahcikanasis, or the"Frost Exploding Moon" — since in that part of the year one might hear the cracks in some trees as ice forms and falls off.

In the Southern Hemisphere, December is during the summer, and the Māori of New Zealand described the lunar months in January to February as Hui-Tanguru, or"The foot of Rūhī now rests upon the earth," according to the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Rūhī refers to a star in the constellation Scorpio, near Antares . calls this full moon lunation the 12th month, Làyuè, or Preserved Month, named for the practice of preserving meats during the winter.

 

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