A ‘Super Deer Moon’ Will Light Up the Sky This Monday, July 3: How to See It?

The moon visible at night this Monday, July 3, will be the largest seen so far in 2023. This phenomenon is called Buckmoon Or the ‘Deer Moon’, according to the site, will begin happening at 7:10pm (Eastern Time). in the sky

The moon will remain visible southeast of the horizon until 4:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 4. According to the Internet, its bright spot almanac, It will be around 7:39.

A supermoon is the first big full moon of the season. The next event will happen again on August 1, according to the website Space.

“To our eyes, the moon appears full or nearly full for two or three days.” Astronomer Darren Paskill of the University of Sussex explained BBC Science Focus Magazine.

This phenomenon occurs when the Moon travels in an elliptical rather than orbital path around the Earth and is at its closest point to our planet.

full moon Looks 14% bigger and up to 30% brighter than normal, And when it’s a supermoon, it’s 7% bigger and 15% brighter than the average full moon.

A supermoon occurs when the moon is 360,000 kilometers from Earth. It occurs during the perigee phase of the lunar orbit. That means it is about 21,000 kilometers closer than the average distance it maintains from us, about 384,400 kilometers.

July 2023 is called Full Moon Buckmoon (‘Deer Moon’) because it is during this year that male deer begin to grow horns on their foreheads. Deer shed their antlers in late winter or early spring and grow them back in summer.

It also gets the name There is the moon (‘Hay Moon’) or hot moon (‘Hot Moon’) due to the summer heat of harvest and fry respectively.

A full moon Every 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds Or, in other words, every 29.53 days. This is the time it takes for the moon to complete its lunar cycle and circle the earth once.