It was a stargazer's dream last night as a full Wolf Moon lit up skies across the UK in a stunning night-time display. The January Full Moon, often called the Wolf Moon, was large in the sky from about 7.16pm yesterday evening.
It is so-called after a combination of Native American, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic ancient month names, Cambridgeshire Live reports.
For millennia, people in the Northern Hemisphere tracked the changing seasons by following the lunar month rather than the solar year our modern calendar is based on.
The names then became associated with the full moon of the months. It seems that here’s no overall consensus, but many sources say the full Moon takes its name from howling hungry wolves.
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