I was along for a night hike at the Arboretum and it was beautifully cold as moonlight placed shadows from trees on the snow in rows and curves. We mostly heard icy snow crunching under boots along with a few solitary hoots from an owl over the big spring. This is a picture of the moon just after it rose in the eastern sky. Every 29 days, the full moon rises about the same time - about 6:00 PM. Near the time of the equinoxes the full moon rises very close to sunset, so with a view from high ground you may be able to see the sun dropping below one horizon and the moon rising from the other at the same time. This is true of sunrise and moonset in the morning as well. Tomorrow, moonrise will be about 50 minutes later so it will be plenty dark to see an "almost full" moon come up in the east.
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