The next full Moon occurs on Friday, August 31 at 8:58 AM CDT.  This is the second full Moon for August 2012.  For a discussion of blue moons, see my August 1 post. 

I took this photo of the nearly full (waxing gibbous) Moon last night (8/29/12) through our Celestron Nexstar 130 equipped with the variable polarizing filter.

Tycho crater with its prominent rays is visible near the top.