Watch the most important and brightest full moon of 2025 shine Nov. 5 with this free supermoon livestream

The November full moon, also referred to as the Beaver Moon or Frost Moon, rises in the present day, marking the most important and brightest full moon of 2025.

You can watch the supermoon stay on-line because of a free livestream from astronomer Gianluca Masi and his Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy. The webcast begins at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) on Nov. 5, and you’ll watch it stay right here on Space.com (by way of the video above) or immediately on the Virtual Telescope Project’s WebTV or YouTube channel, climate allowing.

“We will be observing it from Manciano, Italy, where our facility is based,” Masi informed Space.com in an e-mail. “Also, we will show the best full Moon images we collected over the years, particularly those with our satellite shining above the legendary monuments and skyline of Rome”.

Why is this full moon special?

The moon reaches its full phase at 8:19 a.m. EST (1319 GMT) on Nov. 5. Later the same at 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT), it hits perigee — its closest point to Earth of the year — at a distance of 221,726 miles (356,833 kilometers). The close timing makes tonight’s Beaver Moon a supermoon and the largest apparent full moon of 2025. It will appear about 6% larger and 16% brighter than an average full moon, a subtle difference that many casual observers won’t notice.

Even so, supermoons are still a treat to watch, especially near the horizon, where the moon illusion could make the disk look dramatically bigger.

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