On the day of the Solstice, morning twilight will begin at 4:30 AM, sunrise will be at 5:43 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 74.6 degrees at 1:10 PM, sunset will be at 8:37 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:49 PM EDT.īy the day of the full Moon at the end of June, morning twilight will begin at 4:33 AM, sunrise will be at 5:45 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 74.4 degrees at 1:11 PM, sunset will be at 8:37 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:50 PM EDT. The Summer Solstice will be on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 6:07 AM EDT, and this will be the day with the longest period of sunlight, 14 hours, 53 minutes, and 40.9 seconds.
The latest sunsets of the year (rounded to the minute) will be at 8:37 PM EDT from Wednesday, June 20 until Thursday, July 5, 2018. Rounded to the minute, the earliest sunrises of the year (5:42 AM EDT) will be from Sunday, June 10, to Sunday, June 17, 2018. For the Washington, DC area, on the day of the full Moon at the end of May, morning twilight will begin at 4:36 AM, sunrise will be at 5:46 AM, the Sun will reach a maximum altitude of 72.8 degrees at 1:06 PM, sunset will be at 8:25 PM, and evening twilight will end at 9:36 PM EDT. Observing this annual month of charitable acts, prayer, and fasting from dawn to sunset is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon.Īs for other celestial events between now and the full Moon after next:Īs Spring ends and Summer begins, the daily periods of sunlight will reach their longest. This full Moon is near the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, the month in which the Quran was revealed. In the Islamic calendar the months start with the first sighting of the waxing crescent Moon a few days after the New Moon. This full Moon is the middle of the fourth month of the Chinese calendar and Sivan in the Hebrew calendar. In lunisolar calendars the months change with the new Moon and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar months. For my back yard at least, I can attest that the strawberries are coming in! The name comes from the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries in northeastern North America. According to this almanac, the last full Moon of Spring is known as the Strawberry Moon, a name universal to just about every Algonquin tribe. The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published Native American names for the full Moons in the 1930's. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Sunday night through Wednesday morning (and possibly early Wednesday evening). The next full moons after that will be July 13 and August 11.įor more about the Strawberry Moon, see moon-june.The next full Moon will be on Tuesday morning, May 29, 2018, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 10:20 AM EDT. And if the weather doesn’t cooperate, this is just the second of four consecutive full moons that qualify as a supermoon. If the weather is clear, the whole family can have a Strawberry Moon watching party. June’s full Moon stands at 222,238.4 miles away, still within that cut-off point. So residents and visitors in Pasadena may have only a slight problem with trying to see the Strawberry Moon.Ī supermoon is any full Moon that is at a distance of at least 90-percent of perigee. The National Weather Service forecasts “mostly clear” skies early Monday evening in Pasadena. Strawberry Moon was named for the strawberry harvesting season by the Algonquin Native American tribes in the northeast U.S, the National Weather Service said. This full moon is the second of four consecutive supermoons in which the full moon of a month coincides with the moon at or near perigee, its closest point to the Earth in its monthly orbit, according to a article about the Strawberry Moon. This June full moon is also known as the full Strawberry Moon, because it comes just as strawberries are starting to ripen. In areas where the skies are clear, June’s Strawberry Moon will appear at around 4:51 a.m. Starting tonight and into early hours of Tuesday, June 14, Pasadena residents and others throughout California can look to the southeast just after sunset and see a special treat in the heavens – a “large and golden hued” full Moon rising above the horizon, says a description of the phenomenon by Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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