🔭 Astronomical Events

October 26 – November 1, 2026

Written by Mia Astrology ✨🌌

October is not leaving quietly, and frankly, after the amount of celestial entertainment we’ve had this autumn, I wouldn’t expect anything less, because this final week delivers a magnificent Full Hunter’s Moon, the beginning of November’s famous Taurid fireball season, the final stretch of the Orionid meteor shower, and an autumn night sky so packed with beautiful objects that you could spend an entire evening outside without once needing to look at your phone.

Although, knowing most of us, we’d probably check it anyway.

The headline event arrives almost immediately, with the Hunter’s Moon reaching exact fullness on October 26 at 04:11 UTC, which means the date changes to October 25 for much of North America, and if you’ve ever wondered why one astronomy website says the Full Moon is Sunday while another insists it’s Monday, congratulations, you’ve discovered the wonderfully irritating relationship between celestial mechanics and time zones.

But the Full Moon is only the beginning.

By Halloween, the Southern and Northern Taurid meteor showers are both active, bringing the possibility of unusually bright, slow-moving fireballs, while the Moon begins retreating from the evening sky and Saturn, the Pleiades, Andromeda and the autumn constellations continue offering excellent reasons to spend time outdoors.

And yes, this is also the week when daylight saving time ends across much of Europe, which means people in the UK get an extra hour of evening darkness according to the clock, while most Americans won’t change their clocks until November 1.

The universe has supplied the entertainment.

Now we just need the weather to cooperate.

🌕 THE BIG EVENT: THE FULL HUNTER’S MOON

October 26, 2026 — 04:11 UTC

The October 2026 Full Moon is officially known as the Hunter’s Moon, and it reaches its exact full phase on Monday, October 26 at 04:11 UTC.

That timing is important because the Full Moon happens at one precise instant worldwide, even though the local calendar date differs.

For readers in the United States and Canada, exact fullness occurs during the evening of Sunday, October 25, while readers in the UK, Europe and Australia experience the event on Monday, October 26.

The Moon will appear nearly full on the evenings immediately surrounding that moment, so you have more than one opportunity to enjoy it.

Which is fortunate, because clouds have an astonishing ability to arrive approximately four minutes before an astronomical event you’ve been looking forward to for weeks.