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The full moon of June will shine brightly next week, but don’t worry if bad weather clouds your view. You can watch the Full Strawberry Moon in a live webcast for free.
The Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy, is hosting a free full moon livestream on Tuesday (June 14). The webcast, which begins at 3:15 PM EDT (1915 GMT), will show live footage of the full moon, the second supermoon of 2022, as it rises over Rome. You can watch the live stream in the video feed above.
“We will admire the full moon rising over the glorious monuments of Rome, the…
Eternal City,” wrote astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in an email alert. Masi will also host the webcast on the Virtual Telescope Project website (opens in new tab) and on YouTube (opens in new tab)†
Related: Supermoon Secrets: 7 Surprising Facts About the Big Moon
The June full moon is the second of four consecutive supermoons in which the month-long full moon coincides with the moon at or near perigee, the closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit. A supermoon can appear slightly larger than the full moon when it is furthest from Earth (NASA has said (opens in new tab) it may appear up to 30% brighter and 17% larger), but it won’t look much different to the casual observer.
June’s Full Strawberry Supermoon takes place on Tuesday at 7:51 a.m. EDT (1151 GMT), but the moon will appear full to observers the day before and after the actual event. So feel free to watch the moon shine from June 13-15. It gets its name “strawberry” from the short strawberry harvest season with which it coincides.
The June full moon will be the lowest full moon of 2022, with the moon rising just 23.3 degrees above the southern horizon early on June 15 for observers in Washington, DC, NASA said. That’s because it comes before the summer solstice on June 21.
“During the summer solstice, the sun appears highest in the sky all year round,” NASA wrote in a guidebook (opens in new tab)† “Full moons are opposite the sun, so a full moon near the summer solstice will be low in the sky.”
Full moons are among the easiest stargazing events to observe and a great target for amateur astronomers just starting to observe with binoculars or telescopes. If you’re hoping to photograph the moon, our best astrophotography cameras and best astrophotography guide lenses may come in handy. You can also consult our guide to photographing the moon with a camera to plan your moon photo shoot.
Editor’s Note: If you take a great moon photo and want to share it with the readers of Space.com, send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com.
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