The celestial event will coincide with the summer solstice for the first time since 1985.
On Friday night, if the sky is dark enough, you may be able to look up in the sky and see a rare strawberry moon visible from where you are this year. For the first time since 1985, the celestial event will coincide with the summer solstice.out in West Texas, spoke to Texas Standard about the moon. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.Texas Standard: So tell us a little bit about this strawberry moon and where it got its name and all that kind of good stuff.
So this year is going to be really interesting because the moon is going to be very, very low in the sky. So it will have a slight color to it. So it’ll appear a golden color or maybe an orangish color. So it doesn’t happen very often. This year, it’s really special because the moon’s orbital inclination is not in the same plane as the Earth as it orbits the sun. It has a slight tilt of about 5 degrees, above and below.
Yeah, I’ve seen this before, but I wasn’t sure exactly why it was that the moon sometimes seemed as big as it did in the sky. But it has to do with its proximity or its arc being low to the horizon from where we are?Interesting. So where’s the best place? I would imagine the McDonald Observatory is the best place in Texas to observe this.
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