Full Moon

This year’s full Moon rises on the evening of July 22 and peaks just before midnight local time on July 23. Learn more about the penumbral eclipse that will take place on this date and find out why it is called the Buck Moon. This year, the full Moon will instead be eclipsed by a partial lunar eclipse.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Fourth of July fireworks may be less extravagant than usual, but the light show in the sky will continue uninterrupted. Join the brightest satellite for Independence Day fireworks in the night sky on July 22, July 23 and July 24.

The July full moon, known as the Buck Moon, will rise on Saturday night and continue through Sunday morning. On Sunday, July 23, the “Buckmoon,” named after the new antlers that can be seen on young male deer at this time of year, ascends into the evening sky and reaches its peak shortly before midnight on 24 and 25 July.

The Farmer’s Almanac states: “A penumbral eclipse occurs when the moon slightly darkens a small part of it. A lunar eclipse can be even more subtle, as the “penumbra obscures even the smallest parts of the moon.” If you witnessed last month’s full Moon, the same kind of penumbral eclipse will occur on July 24 and 25.

The slight decrease in brightness of parts of the Moon will be hard for the human eye to notice, but there will be a slight increase in brightness at the Moon’s outer edge and a decrease at its inner edge. Most North Americans, with the exception of the northernmost regions of Alaska and Canada, will not be able to see the solar eclipse because they are far from the equator.

The Moon will begin to enter the partial shadow at about 1: 45 am CEST (2: 43 am. UTC) and, according to NASA, will complete its exit from it and the partial shadow of Earth at 1: 52 a! m. About 35% of the Moon will be in partial shadow during the total eclipse, the rest in the total shadow of about 30%.

If this were a complete lunar eclipse, the entire Moon would darken and give off a reddish-orange tint. Instead, observers will notice a darkening of the face of the Moon during the eclipse. A penumbral eclipse occurs when the Moon drifts into the shadow of the Earth, preventing some of the Sun’s rays from shining on it.

A light lunar eclipse, known as a penumbral eclipse, will occur late at night on Independence Day. Every year on the night of the strawberry moon, another penumbral eclipse takes place.

A total lunar eclipse, a blood moon, occurs when the Moon steps into the Earth’s shadow. In the maximum phase of the eclipse, one can see a bright red moon with a red color, similar to the color of the blood. From a distance, the shadow appears like a bull’s eye in the middle of a dartboard, like the Moon itself.

Christian settlers, who often used the name of the full Moon, called it the Moon of Yule, and the Moon was also called the Long Night Moon because, due to its long duration, it spent more time deep above the Sun than below the horizon.

The lunar cycle lasts only 29.5 days, meaning full moons generally fall on slightly different dates each month, occasionally more than once. Here is everything you need to know about the full Moon, from the date of the Moon’s closest approach to the Sun to its distance from Earth and duration. Note: Full moons fall in 2020 but not in 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020 – 2021.

The majority of pre-modern calendars used the Moon as the first full Moon of the month and as the last full day of a month. The introduction of the solar, Julian, and Gregorian calendars ended this convention, but not the lunar cycle.

In modern times, the Moon developed new names, most of which were attributed to the Indians. Although the Anglo-Saxon name was Lent Moon, it also had several other names, including Crows Moon ( crows moon), Moon of Lent (moon – crow) and sun moon.

This year’s worm moon is a super full moon because it appears to the human eye as a full moon – with a diameter of 2.5 degrees, or about the size of the Sun. The full Moon graces the sky on the day of the spring equinox, which falls on March 20 of this year. A micro new moon occurs around March 24 and is seen as a “new moon” in the northern hemisphere on April 1, the first day after the equinox.

April’s full Moon is known as a pink moon, but make no mistake about it turning pink.

 

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