On Monday *JUNE . 29 . 2026
The Strawberry Moon will turn full !!!
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¿¿¿ How does the Full Moon influence tides ???
The Moon’s gravitational tug causes Earth’s waters to bulge, birthing tides. During both Full and New Moons, the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in alignment, generating “spring tides.”
These tides can swing exceptionally high or low due to the combined gravitational influences of the Sun and Moon.
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Solar System
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June’s full moon is traditionally known as the Strawberry Moon, a name associated with seasonal harvests rather than the moon’s color.
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The JUNE Strawberry Moon . 2026
Named for the traditional strawberry harvest in parts of North America in June, this full moon is notable for three reasons: it’s the first full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it will hang lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2026, and it will be the second-smallest full moon of the year.
This illusion is strongest during moonrise and moonset, and it’s amplified when a full moon hangs unusually low, as June’s does.
Understanding this helps explain why the Strawberry Moon can look massive and dramatic — even though, astronomically speaking, it’s actually a micro moon.
As with every full moon, the exact moment of peak illumination is not the best time to observe it.
The most beautiful views will come at moonrise, when the Full Strawberry Moon will appear low on the southeastern horizon during dusk.
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While the Full Moon is up, it can be hard to observe any deep-sky objects, so tonight concentrate your view on our satellite. Its nearside is mottled light and dark — those dark regions are old lava plains called maria, Latin for seas.
In the lunar south, Tycho Crater is extremely prominent, with long rays of ejected material that was flung out when the crater was formed arcing across the nearside.
These rays reach as far from the crater as Mare Serenitatis in the northern hemisphere, whose dark landscape is bisected by a bright white streak of ejecta.
Moonrise will take place across North America in blue hour, when the sky is darkening but still retains color — perfect timing.
New York City:
sunset at 8:31 p.m. EDT, moonrise at 8:48 p.m. EDT.
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Los Angeles:
sunset at 8:08 p.m. PDT, moonrise at 8:26 p.m. PDT.
The night before, the moon rises before sunset while the sky is still very bright. The night after, it rises much later, when the sky is already dark.
The Strawberry Moon is the seventh of 13 full moons in 2026,
a year that includes an extra full moon because the lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year.
Of those full moons, three are supermoons — on Jan. 3, Nov. 24 and Dec. 24 — when the moon is near perigee and appears larger than average.
By contrast, June’s Strawberry Moon represents the opposite extreme:
the ultimate micro moon of 2026.
The next full moon after this one will be
the Buck Moon on July 29, 2026,
which begins the run of higher, brighter summer full moons.
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The phases of the Moon.
The phases of the Moon are:
New Moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent.
A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the synodic month or lunar month, lasts about 29.5 days.
Though a Full Moon only occurs during the exact moment when Earth, Moon, and Sun form a perfect alignment, to our eyes, the Moon seems Full for around three days.
https://timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/moon-july-2026
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https://timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/super-full-moon.html
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