Nightly News   |  September 22, 2010

Moon looms large in autumn sky

The harvest moon is back in the night sky and looks bigger than ever on the autumn equinox. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: We love the heavens around here, and so fans of the night sky know that, and they write us all the time. And a viewer in Colorado named Jack Chesnut wants everybody to remind everyone about the harvest moon . That's his thing, apparently. Looks as big as a dinner plate in the night sky these days. That's early evening tonight in Philadelphia . And this moon apparently is a special one, because it happens on the same day as the autumn equinox, when the sun passes directly over the equator. And an added bonus, we're told, both Jupiter and Uranus will be visible in the sky tonight, so get out there and look up and hope it's not cloudy, as it looks like it's going to