Moon in Auckland Today — Full Moon

Moon in Auckland — Did You Know?

• ·Auckland's Maori Ngāti Whātua people use the maramataka — the Maori lunar calendar — as a living guide to fishing, planting, and harvesting in the Waitemata Harbour region; specific named moon phases such as Ōtāne and Ōtāru are still consulted by Maori fishers in the Hauraki Gulf to predict the best snapper fishing nights, a practice that has continued for over 700 years.
• ·Auckland's unique geography — a city on an isthmus between two harbours with 53 volcanic cones — means the full moon can be watched from the summit of any of its ancient volcanic peaks; from Maungawhau (Mt Eden), the moon rises over the Waitemata Harbour, crosses the isthmus at its highest arc, and sets over the Manukau Harbour in a single night's traverse of the entire city.
• ·At 36.8°S in the Southern Hemisphere, Auckland's moon arcs through the northern sky; the winter full moon reaches approximately 77° above the northern horizon, and from any of the volcanic summits, observers see the moon arc left-to-right (east to west via north) — the reverse of the right-to-left arc seen from equivalent latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.