The Summer Solstice, 2025 and the Strawberry Moon

The Summer Solstice, 2025 The 2025 Summer Solstice, the Astronomical beginning of summer and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs this year on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:42 pm EDT (Saturday, June 21, 2025, 2:42 UTC). By contrast, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere experience the exact opposite; for[…]

The Summer Solstice and June’s Strawberry Moon, 2024

Please see this article for more details about this image and the June 2009 occultation of the red supergiant star Antares. This year’s Summer Solstice occurs on Thursday, June 20 (details below), followed the next day by this year’s full ‘Strawberry’ Moon on Friday, June 21st. Why is June’s full moon the “Strawberry Moon”? In[…]

Lunar Occultation of Delta Scorpii, June 12, 2022 (with Video)

A lunar occultation of Delta Scorpii, a bright, second magnitude star and one of the principal stars in Scorpio, the scorpion, occurs tonight, Sunday June 12th. What is a Lunar Occultation? A lunar occultation is exactly what it sounds like. The moon occults a star and astronomers often take advantage of these events to better[…]

The Changing Seasonal Skies

Did you ever wonder why each of the seasons features a unique and distinctive procession of stars and constellations? The year is divided into four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. We begin the astronomical year on the Vernal Equinox, the astronomical beginning of Spring and the date the sun, moving eastward along the Ecliptic,[…]

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