Strawberry Moon

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Tonight you should be able to see the Strawberry Moon. More here. http://www.newsweek.com/summer-solstice-2016-coincides-strawberry-moon-watch-472163


A “strawberry moon” will light up the sky tonight, coinciding with the summer solstice—the longest day of the year—for the first time since 1967. Astronomers have hailed the event as a once or twice-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

“Having a full moon land smack on the solstice is a truly rare event,” Bob Mernan, an astronomer at theFarmer’s Almanac, an annual American periodical that contains astronomical data, told The Daily Telegraph. “The sun gets super high so this moon must be super-low. This forces its light through thicker air, which also tends to be humid this time of year, and the combination typically makes [the moon] amber coloured.”

A strawberry moon is not red or pink as might be expected. Instead, the name refers to the full moon in June, heralded by Native American Algonquin tribes as the beginning of the strawberry picking season. It is also sometimes referred to as a ‘honey moon’.
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Yes. My daughter put her crystal collection out last night, to be charged by the full solstice moon. A ritual widely practised all over the world, so she tells me.
 
I just came in from looking at it with a friend. I wish we'd had a bonfire here and flute music and a dance down in the grove. I try to go out in the moonlight every full moon (and more often) -- I don't remember hearing about the Strawberry Moon last time we had a full moon at the summer solstice. One website said the last one was the Summer of Love (1967, as you said, SeaBreeze) and the next one will be in 2062. Wish I could time-travel tonight and go back to that summer at my current age or about halfway between my age then and my age now.

I am glad you started this thread, SeaBreeze! :)
 
Sea: I saw a lot of interesting things coming out of the galaxy while flying at night. Night time flying was always the best. Quiet because most of the passengers are trying to grab some shut-eye. I saw a lot of shooting stars, comets and even the Aurora Borealis. Believe it or not, the majority of pilots do not like nighttime flying.
 
I actually picked a few strawberries (strawberries are doing good this year) and ate them while I was looking at the moon. So it was an awesome strawberry moon, although my friend said the moon looked the same to her. Silly woman, be quiet and eat the strawberry. This was the first year I heard of the strawberry moon so I am glad I got to participate in it.
 
oldman said:
Sea: I saw a lot of interesting things coming out of the galaxy while flying at night. Night time flying was always the best. Quiet because most of the passengers are trying to grab some shut-eye. I saw a lot of shooting stars, comets and even the Aurora Borealis. Believe it or not, the majority of pilots do not like nighttime flying.
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Wow Oldman, I've seen some beautiful Northern Lights from the ground, I can imagine who awesome they are to see from a plane in flight. I bet being a pilot at night is very interesting indeed! :cool:

 

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