FULL MOON STRAWBERRY MOON FULL
On the morning of the late May full Moon, as morning twilight begins, bright Saturn will appear in the south-southwest about 26 degrees above the horizon, Mars will appear to the left of Saturn about 29 degrees above the horizon in the south-southeast, and bright Jupiter will be setting in the west-southwest. By the evening of the full Moon at the end of June, as evening twilight ends, Jupiter will have shifted to about 36 degrees above the southern horizon, Saturn will appear about 14 degrees above the southeastern horizon, and Mercury will appear about 2.5 degrees above the horizon in the west-northwest. By mid-June the planet Mercury will begin to be visible about 30 minutes after sunset in the west-northwest and by late June will be above the horizon at the time evening twilight ends. The planet Mars will not rise until after midnight. The bright planet Saturn will be rising in the east-southeast at 10:26 PM, and will be at its brightest for the year at the end of June. Not as bright as Venus, but still bright, will be the planet Jupiter, just past its brightest for the year, appearing about 29 degrees above the horizon in the southeast. On the evening of the full Moon at the end of May, as evening twilight ends, the bright planet Venus as the evening star will appear in the west-northwest, about 15 degrees above the horizon. On the day of the Solstice, morning twilight will begin at 4:30 AM, sunrise will be at 5:43 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 74.6 degrees at 1:10 PM, sunset will be at 8:37 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:49 PM EDT.īy the day of the full Moon at the end of June, morning twilight will begin at 4:33 AM, sunrise will be at 5:45 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 74.4 degrees at 1:11 PM, sunset will be at 8:37 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:50 PM EDT. The Summer Solstice will be on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 6:07 AM EDT, and this will be the day with the longest period of sunlight, 14 hours, 53 minutes, and 40.9 seconds.
The latest sunsets of the year (rounded to the minute) will be at 8:37 PM EDT from Wednesday, June 20 until Thursday, July 5, 2018. Rounded to the minute, the earliest sunrises of the year (5:42 AM EDT) will be from Sunday, June 10, to Sunday, June 17, 2018. For the Washington, DC area, on the day of the full Moon at the end of May, morning twilight will begin at 4:36 AM, sunrise will be at 5:46 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 72.8 degrees at 1:06 PM, sunset will be at 8:25 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:36 PM EDT. Observing this annual month of charitable acts, prayer, and fasting from dawn to sunset is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon.Īs for other celestial events between now and the full Moon after next:Īs Spring ends and Summer begins, the daily periods of sunlight will reach their longest. This full Moon is near the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, the month in which the Quran was revealed. In the Islamic calendar the months start with the first sighting of the waxing crescent Moon a few days after the New Moon. This full Moon is the middle of the fourth month of the Chinese calendar and Sivan in the Hebrew calendar. In lunisolar calendars the months change with the new Moon and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar months. For my back yard at least, I can attest that the strawberries are coming in! The name comes from the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries in northeastern North America. According to this almanac, the last full Moon of Spring is known as the Strawberry Moon, a name universal to just about every Algonquin tribe. The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published Native American names for the full Moons in the 1930's. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Sunday night through Wednesday morning (and possibly early Wednesday evening). The next full Moon will be on Tuesday morning, May 29, 2018, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 10:20 AM EDT.