{"id":999,"date":"2023-12-27T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2023-12-28T04:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:13:37","slug":"full-cold-moon-photos-december-2023-day-after-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/full-cold-moon-photos-december-2023-day-after-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cold Moon&#8221; &#8211; 13th and last full moon of 2023 see on Boxing Day (day after Christmas) around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/cold-moon-december-2023.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/cold-moon-december-2023-italy.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2023\/12\/27\/in-photos-see-the-full-cold-moon-light-up-christmas-skies-around-the-world\/\">December\u2019s full moon, the \u201cCold Moon,\u201d rose during dusk on Tuesday as Boxing Day\u2014the day after Christmas Day\u2014was celebrated. The final full moon of 2023 and the first of winter, it also reached higher into the night sky than any other.<\/a><br> Since it\u2019s opposite the sun in the sky, December\u2019s full moon reaches higher into the night sky than any other\u2014as seen from the northern hemisphere\u2014because it mirrors the sun, which is now at its lowest in the daytime sky.<br><br> It\u2019s called the \u201cCold Moon\u201d because it occurs during the beginning of winter, which began on December 21 with the solstice\u2014the longest night of the year north of the equator. A full moon has not occurred on Christmas Day for North Americans since 2015 and won&#8217;t again until 2034, according to NASA.<br><br>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42673-december-full-moon.html\">December full moon: The Cold Moon says goodbye to 2023<\/a><br><br> (unquote)<br><br> Image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2023\/12\/27\/in-photos-see-the-full-cold-moon-light-up-christmas-skies-around-the-world\/\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) December\u2019s full moon, the \u201cCold Moon,\u201d rose during dusk on Tuesday as Boxing Day\u2014the day after Christmas Day\u2014was celebrated. The final full moon of 2023 and the first of winter, it also reached higher into the night sky than any other. Since it\u2019s opposite the sun in the sky,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/full-cold-moon-photos-december-2023-day-after-christmas\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[36,26,27,50,39,51,31],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-observer","post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-events","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-image","tag-nature","tag-photos","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}