A plane flies through last April's "Pink Moon." No, the moon won't be pink, but it has quite a resume.Be it the Paschal, Pink, or When-the-Ducks-Come Home Moon, Saturday’s full moon will be a momentous one for the world’s religious calendars and for lunar connoisseurs.
it rises at 6:34 p.m. — a full hour and 16 minutes before it does Saturday —and should be beaming brightly by 9 p.m. or so.Given all the urban light interference around here, the moon often is the star of night sky, the backlighting for those intricate tree shadows and animating the blooms and blossoms with that subtle, reflected silvery light.
Over the next few months, moonlight gradually loses more air time. The rises come later, the periods of darkness shorter, and the higher the sun rises during the day, the lower moon rises at night, says Harry J. Augensen, director of the observatory at Widener University, where he is a professor emeritus.
The next Super Moon will be the “Strawberry Moon” of June 14, appropriately during the strawberry season.The April full moon has quite a resume. Traditionally it is known as the “Pink Moon.” That’s not a hallucinatory reference: According to the Farmers Almanac it takes its name from the “ground phlox,” a pinkish mountain wildflower that appears this time of year in the Eastern United States.
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