Full Moon Rises on Summer Solstice for First Time in Decades

[lovuian]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-live-full-moon-rises-120002981.html

For the first time in nearly 70 years, a full moon will rise on the same day as the summer solstice.

Space broadcaster Slooh will stream this phenomenon live from its observatory at the Institute of Astrophysics in the Canary Islands on Monday at 8 p.m. ET. Slooh host Paul Cox and Slooh astronomer Bob Berman will discuss the rare astronomical event during the broadcast.

“Having a full moon land smack on the solstice is a truly rare event,” Berman said in a statement. “We probably won’t push people off pyramids like the Mayans did, but Slooh will very much celebrate this extraordinary day of light with fascinating factoids and amazing live telescope feeds.”

[tonyt53]

1. This is good stuff! The Mayan refernce is neat too.

[Mendocino]

2. 6:34pm Eastern Time

is the official time of solstice. YMMV

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Thanks for telling me. Saw it last night.

Great moon.

[Orrex]

4. We should bomb it.

Now more than ever.

[trotsky]

6. Agreed. Its hostile intentions have never been clearer.

Our first bombing only annoyed it.

[WheelWalker]

10. Aye, she's a harsh mistress.

[Moonwalk]

5. Gonna being a lot of happy pagans tonight

i.e. those who celebrate both full moons and solstices as religious events. Happy Solstice all!

[Moostache]

7. This should be the highest of holy days!!!

The sun worshippers of the ancient world were the only ones who were ever remotely close to describing an actual deity that interacts with the world on a continual basis!

The only holier day would be a total solar eclipse on the solstice!!!

[longship]

8. Visual astronomers despise the full moon.

It washes out all the visual astronomy. All of it!

Only the quarter moons have any interest, when the sun lightens the craters from oblique angles and gives one a great view.

Otherwise, the moon sucks. It is too bright and washes out the rest of the sky.

As a frustrated amateur astronomer, who only views the moon on quarters, just saying.

Clear skies!

[niyad]

9. thanks for the info--the moon is absolutely beautiful

[OldRedneck]

11. It's an omen.

[forest444]

13. And probably not a good one.

Full moons are generally believed by astrologers to bring (potential) complications of all kinds - and this is a particularly difficult one.

It'll soon pass, and hopefully without incident; just avoid signing anything for a few days.

[OldRedneck]

12. Lots of other things going on in the night sky

For the past few weeks and continuing for a few weeks, three planets are visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

I live on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay, about 90 minutes NE of Richmond, VA.

By twilight, Jupiter is the brightest object in the sky, almost directly overhead, moving westward as the night progresses.

In the southeastern sky at the same time is Mars -- a bright orange object visible from twilight until near dawn.

In the east -- to the left and below Mars -- is a white object, not as bright as Jupiter and Mars, not sparkling like a star. This is Saturn.

With even a cheap department-store telescope you can see:
1. Dark bands on Jupiter as well as the four Galilean moons (4 of Jupiters 60 moons). The four moons appear in the telescope as tiny white dots arranged on either side of Jupiter.
2. If you're lucky, and the skies are clear and not humid, you can make out one end of Mars has a white glow to it -- that's the Martian polar cap that's covered in some form of ice.
3. The rings of Saturn. The rings are turned almost full-on toward Earth and make a splendid sight.

[Solly Mack]

14. Not that I need an excuse to run naked through the clover

but it is always good to have one should someone want to know why I'm doing it.

Any excuse will do, really.

[Doctor Jack]

15. Its been wreaking havoc on my menstrual cycle

And I'm a man. There is no way this is a good sign.