May’s Full Flower Moon rises on May 15th-16th. This first supermoon of 2022, will host a total lunar eclipse – shortly after midnight on the East Coast!
Eclispe of the Super Flower Blood Moon…
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The Paschal Moon
April’s “Pink Moon,” the first of the astronomical spring for the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the Frog Moon, the Breaking Ice Moon, and the Budding Moon. The first full moon occuring on or after the March vernal equinox is also known as the “Paschal Moon” of Easter! The word, “Paschal,” derived from the Greek and Latin word, Pascha, means Passover…
This full “Paschal” moon of Saturday, the 16th, reaches peak illumination at 2:57 P.M. EDT, but won’t appear in the sky until it cracks the horizon’s crust just after sunset..
Full Cold Moon of December
December’s Cold Moon will reach peak fullness at 11:36 p.m. EST on Saturday the 18th, just three days prior to winter solstice. It will rise in the late afternoon at 4:02 p.m. and remain in the sky until 7:48 a.m. on Sunday the 19th.
To the right of the rising moon, three planets – Jupiter, Saturn and Venus – will be visible to the naked eye aligned in a 45 degree angle relative to the horizon…
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Full Beaver Moon and the Longest Eclipse in Over Five Hundred Years…
November’s Full Beaver Moon, a near-total lunar eclipse, will happen early in the morning on Friday, the 19th, and will last three hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds – the longest in 580 years. This month’s moon will also appear to be full from Wednesday night through Saturday morning.
I wonder what the people viewing the last long eclipse in 1441 were thinking…
For more information, visit NASA’s Full Moon Guide or The Old Farmer’s Almanac!
Positively Moonstruck! 