2023-07-02 22:00:00
The Moon that will be visible on the night of this Monday, July 3, will be the largest that has been seen so far in 2023. The phenomenon, called Buck Moon or ‘deer moon’, will begin to occur at 7 :10 pm (Eastern Time), according to the In the Sky site.
The Moon will continue to be visible to the southeast of the horizon until 4:33 a.m. (also ET) on Tuesday, July 4. Its brightest point, according to The Almanac website, will be around 7:39 p.m.
The supermoon is the first large full moon of this season. The next phenomenon will be repeated around August 1, according to the Space website.
“To our eyes, the Moon will appear full, or nearly full, for two to three days,” Darren Baskill, an astronomer at the University of Sussex, told BBC Science Focus Magazine.
What causes the supermoon?
This phenomenon occurs when the Moon travels its orbit around the Earth in a more elliptical than circular path and is located in the closest place to our planet.
The full Moon appears 14% larger and up to 30% brighter than normal, and when it is a supermoon, it is still 7% larger and 15% brighter than the average full Moon.
A supermoon occurs when the moon is less than 360,000 kilometers from Earth. This occurs during the perigee stage of the lunar orbit. That means that it is regarding 21,000 kilometers closer than the average distance it maintains from us, regarding 384,400 kilometers.
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Why is it called ‘Buck Moon’ or ‘deer moon’?
The full Moon in July 2023 is called the Buck Moon (‘deer moon’) because around this time of year antlers begin to grow on the foreheads of male deer. Deer shed their antlers in late winter or early spring and regrow in the summer.
It is also called Hay Moon (‘hay moon’) or Hot Moon (‘hot moon’) due to the harvest and the heat of the boreal summer, respectively.
A full moon occurs 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 orbit the Earth once.
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