{"id":275994,"date":"2025-06-05T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aerospace\/catch-this-years-strawberry-moon-lighting-up-the-sky-on-june-11\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T23:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:59:21","slug":"catch-this-years-strawberry-moon-lighting-up-the-sky-on-june-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=275994","title":{"rendered":"Catch This Year’s Strawberry Moon Lighting Up the Sky on June 11"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The last full moon before summer kicks off is one of the lowest of the year in the Northern Hemisphere<\/h2>\n
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A full moon on June 28, 2018, as seen from Manchester, England. The reddish glow is likely due to the 2018 Saddleworth Moor wildfires.\u00a0
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Summer will officially begin with this year’s solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a “strawberry moon,” the last full moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s spring. It will be at its brightest at 3:44 a.m. Eastern time in the United States.<\/p>\n

Its name, however, isn’t related to the moon’s color. The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em><\/a>, which has charted everything from celestial bodies to the best time to plant vegetables since 1792, popularized useful nicknames for every month’s full moon. According to the almanac<\/a>, the name strawberry moon has been used by Native peoples, such as the Algonquian, Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota, to mark the harvest time of \u201cJune-bearing\u201d strawberries. “Mead moon” or “honey moon” are old European nicknames for June’s full moon, according to National Geographic<\/em><\/a>, and may have similarly been inspired by honey harvesting.<\/p>\n

In the Northern Hemisphere, the strawberry moon is one of the lowest full moons of the year. That’s because June’s full moon usually takes place closest to the summer solstice, which is when the Earth is in the lowest point of its tilted orbit around the sun, and thus the sun appears at its peak height in our skies. Full moons occur when they are opposite the sun in respect to Earth, so if the sun is in its highest point, the moon is in its lowest, as reported by Live Science<\/em><\/a>‘s Jamie Carter. Earth will reach its aphelion\u2014or the farthest point in its elliptical orbit around the sun\u2014on July 3, making the strawberry moon one of the farthest full moons from our star, per Live Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Because of its position in the sky, June’s full moon may live up to its nickname by appearing more colorful. According to NASA<\/a>, when the moon hangs low, it “tends to have a more yellow or orange hue” than when it’s high because its light has to travel through a thicker portion of the atmosphere to reach our view. This means a greater number of long red wavelengths survive the journey than short blue ones. Pollution, dust or wildfires can also make the moon appear more red.<\/p>\n

The strawberry moon is distinct from the blood moon, however, notes Fox61<\/em><\/a>‘s Krys Shahin. Blood moons\u2014like the one that graced our skies in March<\/a>\u2014occur during total lunar eclipses, when the sun, the Earth and the moon line up in a way that makes the Earth block most of the sun’s light from reaching the moon. The light that manages to seep around our planet and still reach the moon has to filter through our atmosphere, meaning mostly red wavelengths make it through once again.<\/p>\n

Though the strawberry moon will reach its peak early Wednesday morning, the best time to see it will be when it rises over the horizon at dusk on Tuesday evening, per Live Science<\/em>. As reported by Discover Magazine<\/em><\/a>‘s Stephanie Edwards, Mars will also be visible on June 11.<\/p>\n

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