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Date: June 18, 2024 at 09:34:42
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ~~ Full Moon on June 21st ~~ Sagittarius constellation |
URL: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20240622_08_100 |
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Earth & Moon in constellation Sagittarius Sun, Venus & Mercury in constellation Gemini
FRI, 21 JUN 2024 AT 21:07 EDT (01:07 UTC) Dominic Ford, Editor From the Moon feed
The sequence of full moons that fall through the year are sometimes assigned names such as the "Strawberry Moon", according to the months and seasons in which they fall. This practice has been popularised in recent decades by the Farmers' Almanac in the United States. The names used by that almanac claim to have ancient origins from Native American tribes. This claim has been examined in detail by Patricia Haddock's book Mysteries of the Moon (1992) and is partially true, but the selection of names is largely arbitrary.
Throughout history a great variety of different names have been given to the sequence of lunar cycles through the year, and modern lists of such names, such as those popularised by the Farmers' Almanac, tend to inevitably be a medley of names taken from many different cultures.
According to the Venerable Bede's De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time; 725 AD) – an authoritative account of the calendar used in Saxon England – the lunar month containing the first full moon after the June solstice (within summer) was called the "month after midsummer (Æftera Līþa)".
The biography of Charlemagne (circa 817–833 AD), written a few years after his death, gives a name of the "haymaking month (Hewi-mānod)" for the same lunar month.
However, in the scheme followed by the Farmers' Almanac, which has become rather widely quoted, any full moon in the month of June is called the "Strawberry" Moon.
--Observing the Moon in coming days-- Over the nights following 21 June, the Moon will rise around an hour later each day, becoming prominent later in the night. Within a few days, it will only be visible in the pre-dawn and early-morning sky. By the time it reaches last quarter, a week after full moon, it will rise in the middle of the night and set at around noon.
--The exact moment of full moon-- The exact moment of full moon is defined as the time when the Moon's ecliptic longitude is exactly 180° away from the Sun's ecliptic longitude, as observed from the center of the Earth. However, the Moon does not appear in any way special at this instant in time, and a full moon can be observed at any time of night.
At the moment it reaches full phase, the Moon will lie at a declination of 28°21'S in the constellation Sagittarius . It will lie at a distance of 380,000 km from the Earth. The chart below shows the size of this month's full moon in comparison to the largest (perigee) and smallest (apogee) possible apparent size of a full moon, drawn to scale.
The celestial coordinates of the Moon at the time it reaches full phase will be:
Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Angular Size The Moon 18h03m30s 28°21'S Sagittarius 31'25"
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Date: June 21, 2024 at 03:44:46
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ~~ Full Moon on June 21st ~~ Sagittarius constellation |
URL: https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2024/06/05/2024-june-21-junes-full-strawberry-moon/ |
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Chart Caption – 2024, June 21: After sundown, the Full (Strawberry) moon is in the southeast in front of the Teapot of Sagittarius.
The Full moon, this month known as the Strawberry moon, occurs at 8:08 p.m. Central Time, before it rises in the time zone. Locations farther eastward see it closer to local sunset. Another name for this month’s bright lunar disk is the Honey moon, likely related to the name of the wedding trip.
This evening, the moon rises over 45 minutes later in Chicago. By two hours after sunset, it is over 10° above the southeast horizon. It is in front of Sagittarius, above the Teapot’s spout. The pattern’s shape is the modern nickname for the constellation’s brightest stars. With this bright moonlight, use a binocular to see the stars with the moon.
During the night, as Earth rotates, the moon’s westward arc resembles the path of the winter solstice sun. It is south after midnight and appears low in the southwest during morning twilight.
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