This will be the first of three summer supermoons.
The world is ready to witness the full moon of June, known as the Strawberry Moon, on June 14 (Tuesday). At 7.51 am Eastern Daylight Time (17.22 pm IST) on this day, the moon will be at the closest point of its orbit around the Earth, called perigee, which will make it look like a “supermoon”. “.
Supermoons look brighter and bigger for the people of Earth, providing a spectacular night view if the sky is clear.
On Tuesday, it will be 222,238 miles from Earth (about 16,000 miles closer to its average distance) and is expected to be 10 percent brighter than the normal full moon.
What is a Strawberry Moon?
The Strawberry Moon doesn’t look like a strawberry, nor is it pink. This name has been given to the full moon by Native American tribes. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, “This name (Strawberry Moon) has been used by the Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples, among others, to mark the ripening of the” June-bearing “strawberries that are about to be collected “.
This will be the first of three summer supermoons.
The lowest moon of the year
According to space.com, this year’s supermoon will be the lowest full moon of 2022, rising just 23.3 degrees above the horizon, according to NASA. It will be the lowest because the event arrives just before the summer solstice on June 21st.
“At the summer solstice, the sun appears highest in the sky during the year. Full moons are opposite the sun, so a full moon near the summer solstice will be low in the sky,” according to a published guide. by NASA.
The US space agency also said that this will give people the opportunity to observe craters and mountains on the lunar surface with a good telescope.
How to watch it online?
The Ceccano Virtual Telescope Project in Italy will host a free full moon broadcast on Tuesday. The webcast will start at 15.15 EDT (12.45 IST) and show live views of the moon.
Full moon calendar for 2022
According to Old Farmers’ Almanac, there will be six more full moon events this year:
July 13: Hunter Moon August 11: Sturgeon Moon September 10: Harvest Moon October 9: Hunter Moon November 8: Beaver Moon December 7: Cold Moon
This full moon coincides with Vat Purnima, a festival celebrated by Hindus where married women tie a ceremonial thread around a banyan tree and fast for the long lives of their spouses.