July 29, 2007 - Thunder Moon Welcome to the Nature Notebook. The full moon has been the subject of countless folktales, poems and songs. Stories from various cultures describe the dark and light areas of the illuminated face of the moon showing a wide variety of images. We are most familiar with the “man in the moon” image, but some Native Americans saw a rabbit in the face of the moon. Some cultures saw a lady in the moon. Others saw a variety of animals. Tonight’s moon reaches its full phase at 8:48 p.m. It will be the brightest object in the night sky despite the fact that it is about 400,000 times fainter than the direct light of the Sun. And it is the sun’s reflected light that we call moonlight. So if the sky is clear, take a stroll under the Thunder Moon. What can you see in its face? This is PPL's naturalist, Jon Beam, with the Nature Notebook for WVIA.