The Blood Moon is also nicknamed the Travel Moon, Dying Grass Moon, Hunter’s Moon, and the Sanguine Moon (which is a fancy way to say “blood red”). The Blood Moon will instead occur on Sunday, Oc tober 9 at 4:55 p.m. The ominously named Blood Moon comes a little early to coincide with Halloween this year. This is also a Supermoon, with the Moon reaching its closest point to Earth at 5:08 a.m. This month’s Moon is also called the Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon, and the Rose Moon. Named for the summer regrowth of deer and elk antlers shed in the winter, the Buck Moon rises on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:37 p.m. “At its closest point, it is 226,000 miles from Earth, and the Moon appears about 17 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the faintest Moon of the year,” according to NASA’s website.Īlso, this month, look out for the Summer Solstice, which is on Tuesday, June 21, at 5:14 a.m. Eastern.Ī Supermoon occurs when the Moon is both full and particularly close to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as the perigee. The Moon will be at one of its closest points to Earth all year at 7:21 p.m. June’s Full Moon also coincides with a Supermoon. This month's Full Moon is also called Mead Moon and Honey Moon. You can see the Strawberry Moon on Tuesday, June 14 at 7:52 a.m. This juicy Full Moon is in honor of all the ripening berries that make summer desserts so delicious. (Spoiler: This Full Moon is not actually colored pink, sorry.)Ģ022’s Strawberry Moon will also be a Supermoon. The Pink Moon is also nicknamed the Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, and the Fish Moon. The spring Pink Moon, so named for the pink blooms of the phlox flower found all over America, rises Saturday, April 16 at 2:55 p.m. The Spring Equinox is on Sunday, March 20 at 11:33 a.m. Eastern.Īlso nicknamed the Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon, Sugar Moon, and the Lenten Moon, this Full Moon is a harbinger of spring. The Full Moon in March will occur on Friday, March 18 at 3:17 a.m. Just as the Spring Equinox dawns, so too does the Worm Moon. This Full Moon rises on Wednesday, February 16 at 11:57 a.m. This Full Moon has other nicknames that are equally dark and icy - it is also known as the Storm Moon and the Hunger Moon. Snow Moon: February 16, 2022Īuthor Alice McDermott writes in The Ninth Hour that an afternoon in February may be the perfect time for despair, so it is perhaps apt that the Full Moon for February is also named the Snow Moon. The initial Full Moon of a calendar year has been nicknamed the Wolf Moon, but some people call it the Ice Moon, or even the Moon after Yule. Give a hearty howl in celebration of a new year and a new lunar wonder! The first Full Moon of 2022 reaches its zenith on Monday, January 17 at 6:48 p.m. Claudio Divizia / 500px/500Px Plus/Getty Images The moon’s gray patches are ancient, solidified lava floes. Here are the dates and times of every Full Moon in 2022, and how to see them at their best and brightest. There are also Supermoons, lunar eclipses, and more to watch out for. This phenomenon graces our skies about once each year - but not in 2022. For example, there is the Blue Moon, the name given to a second Full Moon occurring within a calendar month. Armed with a telescope, you can see the Full Moon transform into the complex face of another object in space, hanging in our sky.Įach Full Moon has various names, and some are bestowed extra nicknames, too, depending on when they occur. To the naked eye, the Full Moon is a chalky white orb pocked with gray craters, and though we can’t see it, we know a cheeky American flag is planted there (along with a bunch of trash - thank you, NASA).īut those gray craters are actually solid lava floes standing out against anorthite, a white mineral in the Moon’s crust. But do you really know it? In 2022, the Moon is worth getting to know again, but this time in a whole new way. Sure, you think you know the Earth’s celestial companion in all its waxing and waning iterations.
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