Fall officially begins on Wednesday September 22, when the sun crosses the earth's equator while the earth is positioned without its usual tilt.
This rather cool, galactic, fall initiation ritual is the Autumn equinox. When that happens--officially at 11:09 p.m. (est) Wednesday night--the fall season begins in the northern hemisphere. Simultaneously, those who live down under, below the earth's equatorial line, in the southern hemisphere welcome spring.
Shortly after fall begins on the 22 in the northern hemisphere, the moon will shine full at 5:17 a.m. EST. This is the legendary Harvest Moon, so named because its presence warned farmers to gather their season's crops because the days were becoming shorter.
In the southern hemisphere moon rises with the same characteristics in March or April.
If certain events, a howling maybe, puts you on a need to know basis with the moon, this Custom Sunrise Sunset Calendar should help. It gives exact times and dates of sunrises and sunsets in almost every part of the US.
This year, the best nights to view the Harvest Moon are the 22 and the 23.

Tonight and tomorrow night (Sept 20 and 21), Jupiter can be seen by the naked eye, but the planet won't move this close to earth again until 2022.
by Anissa Ford on 2010-09-20
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