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The moon is full at precisely 8:37 p.m. Friday. This is the "harvest moon"- the full moon closest to the autumnal equiox, Sept. 23- whose bright light helps farmers havest their crops late into the night. At 8:37 the harvest moon is 7 degrees above the planet Saturn and 20 degrees above the horizon. Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory