Hard to believe, but autumn is just about here, and there’s a thing called the Harvest Moon coming up in September, which is basically the full moon nearest the September equinox.

This year’s harvest moon in Kane County, IL, will be kind of special, according to EarthSky News, because the night of Sept. 27-28, 2015, features a total lunar eclipse that is also the closest supermoon of 2015.

This September full moon is also called a Blood Moon, EarthSky explains, because it presents the fourth and final eclipse of a lunar tetrad: four straight total eclipses of the moon, spaced at six lunar months (full moons) apart. Phew!

The total lunar eclipse is visible from the most of North America and all of South America after sunset Sept. 27. The EarthSky photo attached to this post shows a partial phase of the April 14-15, 2014 total lunar eclipse by Fred Espenak. Follow the links below to learn more about the 2015 Harvest Moon and the Sept. 27-28 total lunar eclipse.

• When is the September 2015 moon exactly full?
• Who will see the September 27-28 total lunar eclipse?
• Who will see the partial lunar eclipse?
• Eclipse times in Universal Time.
• Eclipse times for North American time zones.
• Lunar eclipse computer courtesy of the US Naval Observatory

SOURCE: EarthSky News