Full Strawberry Moon and longest total lunar eclipse for years

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Total lunar eclipse on Wednesday

But Americans will have to settle for

enjoying the full Strawberry Moon

Strawberry Moon – This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry. Large areas of the world will also witness the longest total lunar eclipse for 11 years.

June 15 full strawberry moon

The eclipse will occur on Wednesday (June 15), with skywatchers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia in prime position to witness the lunar treat. The event is the first lunar eclipse of 2011 and one of two total lunar eclipses this year, the second will take place on December 10. The eclipse, which will occur during June’s full moon, will begin at 1:24 p.m. EDT (1724 GMT) and last until 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT), sadly it will not be visible from North America.

For observers in regions where it will be visible, the eclipse could offer an amazing sight: the period of totality will be 100 minutes. In the last 100 years, only three other eclipses have rivaled the duration of totality of this eclipse. The last lunar eclipse of similar length occurred on July 16, 2000 and lasted 107 minutes.

It is a relatively rare central eclipse where the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018.
 
june 15 full strawberry moon
 

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12 years ago

How beautiful this will be, and it is too bad we won’t be able to see it here!

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