Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, June 10th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 30 minutes, setting at 9:27, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:56. The Moon, 1 day before full, will set at 5:36 tomorrow morning.

The actual instant that the Moon will be full, that is opposite the Sun in the sky, will be 3:44 tomorrow morning. So tonight’s full moon will be fuller than tomorrow night’s Moon. This month’s full moon is also called the Strawberry Moon by Native Americans, because this is the month that strawberries ripen. Also, the term honeymoon comes from the fact that many weddings are in June, when the full moon is low in the sky in the south and has a yellowish or honey color due to haze and atmospheric preferential scattering of blue light. The darker areas of the Moon give the effect of a face called the Man in the Moon. There is also a rabbit in the Moon, curled around the upper edge, with head and ears to the right and body to the left.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

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