The Strawberry Moon is June’s full moon and it will be visible this week.
The name comes from the strawberry picking season in North America, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota tribes were among the groups who named the moon to mark when June-bearing strawberries started to ripen and were ready to be picked.
The Haida called it the Berries Ripen Moon.
Other tribes called it the Booming Moon, Green Corn Moon and the Hoer Moon.
It also went by the names Birth Moon, Egg Laying Moon and Hatching Moon.
In Europe, the June moon is called the Honey Moon or the Mead Moon, and could be the inspiration of the traditional term honeymoon since June was the traditional month for weddings, The Old Farmer’s Almanac reported.
No matter what the Strawberry Moon is called, it normally is the last full moon of spring or the first full moon of the summer.
Some consider it a supermoon when the moon is a bit brighter and bigger than its normal appearance, USA Today reported.
It will also not be a shade of pink or strawberry, CBS News reported.
The Strawberry Moon will officially happen Thursday afternoon at 2:40 p.m., according to NASA. But it will appear full from early Wednesday morning through early Saturday morning.
Click here to find out the moonrise and moonset for your area.
If you can’t see the Strawberry Moon, the Virtual Telescope Project will have a live stream of the moon over Rome on June 24 at 3 p.m. ET, CBS News reported.
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