Stargazers, you won't want to miss this weekend's "beaver moon." Every November, the lunar period in which the moon is most full in the night sky is called the beaver moon, and this year it's supposed to hit its peak in the early hours of Saturday morning.

According to NASA, the beaver moon will be at its fullest at 1:23 a.m. eastern time on November 4, but if you aren't willing to stay up that late, it should appear larger and brighter than normal earlier in the evening.

Similar to the harvest moon in October or the strawberry moon in June, the annual celestial event gets its moniker from the Native Americans, reports the Farmer's Almanac. They would use the light of the full moon to set traps for beavers in preparation for the cold winter ahead, and the name just stuck.

Other names for this weekend's moon include the hunter's moon and the frost moon, though sometimes that name is reserved for a lunar event in December.

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