Best seen: moonrise on Saturday, January 25 The first full moon of 2024, the “Wolf Moon”—also known as the “Quiet Moon” and the “Moon After Yule”— is one of the highest-hanging of the year. The Wolf moon gets its name from the howling wolves that were often heard in Native American and early colonial times during January. It signifies the time when wolves were heard most frequently, hungry in the cold winter.