A jet approaching Los Angeles International Airport crosses the moon as seen from Monterey Park, California, on Wednesday. The harvest moon is the full moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox (this year it falls on this coming Sunday), which marks the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere.

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