The summer season kicks off with a full strawberry moon under clear skies in Metro Vancouver Thursday and Friday
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Tiffany Crawford
Published Jun 20, 2024 • Last updated 4days ago • 2 minute read
Metro Vancouver skywatchers are in for a treat for summer solstice — a full strawberry moon rising as summer officially begins.
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According to NASA, the June strawberry moon will appear full for about three days, starting Thursday night — on the summer solstice — and ending Sunday morning. The agency says it will be at its fullest at 6:08 p.m. PT on Friday.
Marley Leaco*ck, an astronomer with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, said for Metro Vancouver, it will rise in the southeast at 8:55 p.m. on Thursday night and 10 p.m. on Friday night.
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She said this will be a fantastic view for anyone with a telescope.
“If you have a clear line of sight to it, and because it’s being illuminated by the sun so strongly, there’s a good chance to see some interesting features on the moon, especially like the little southern end of it, if you wanted to give that a try,” she said.
Leaco*ck said because the full moon is also happening on the solstice, when the sun is highest in the sky, the moon will be very low in the sky.
“So in some areas on Earth, it won’t even clear the horizon. Some areas further north won’t see a moon at all,” she said, adding here in Metro Vancouver it should hang low to the horizon.
In the 1930s, the Farmer’s Almanac began publishing the Indigenous names for full moons, and the June full moon was named for the harvesting of strawberries, according to NASA.
Other old European names include honey moon, which may have to with harvesting honey in June, and rose moon, because this is the time of the year when the flower starts to bloom.
Thursday marks the first day of summer, with the summer solstice — or the longest day of the year — occurring shortly before 2 p.m. PT. According to theWeather Networkit’s the earliest summer solstice in 228 years.
ticrawford@postmedia.com
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