Tag: Full Strawberry Moon

Summer Starts on Sunday, the Bright Moon Jumps the Scorpion and Spoils the Milk, Shadows Speed across Jupiter and Mars Bugs the Bees!

This image of Messier 13 in Hercules, the father of all globular star clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere, was captured by Martin Pugh. Hundreds of thousands of stars, 25,000 light-years away from the sun, are arranged in a sphere by their mutual gravitational attraction. M13 is visible as a faint fuzzy patch to the…
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The Full Strawberry Moon, Maximum Mercury after Sunset, Both Gas Giant Planets Enter Evening Skies, and Comet PanSTARRS Passes Dubhe!

NASA’s Moon Phase and Libration visualization tool will generate hour-by-hour annotated views of the moon, such as this one for 10 pm EDT on May 31, 2020. You can find more at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4768. There is also an option to generate south up views for use at your telescope eyepiece. Hello, Moon Lovers! Here are your…
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