{"id":26757,"date":"2026-01-03T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26757"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:56:07","slug":"full-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26757","title":{"rendered":"Full Moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2601\/moonwalk1c1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The Full Moon is the brightest lunar phase, and tonight you can stand in the light of the first Full Moon of 2026. In fact, the Moon&#8217;s full phase occurs on January 3 at 10:03 UTC, while only about 7 hours later planet Earth reaches its 2026 perihelion, the closest point in its elliptical orbit around the Sun, at 17:16 UTC. January&#8217;s Full Moon was also not far from its own perigee, or closest approach to planet Earth. For this lunation the Moon&#8217;s perigee was on January 1 at 21:44 UTC. You can also spot planet Jupiter, near its brightest for 2026 and close on the sky to the Full Moon tonight. But while you&#8217;re out skygazing don&#8217;t forget to look for rare, bright fireballs from the Quadrantid meteor shower. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap260103.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Full Moon is the brightest lunar phase, and tonight you can stand in the light of the first Full Moon of 2026. In fact, the Moon&#8217;s full phase occurs <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26757\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-26757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26758,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26757\/revisions\/26758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}