2024 Full Moon calendar: Dates, times, types, and names

From - Astronomy Magazine

Edited by - Amal Udawatta

Here's the schedule of Full Moons in 2024, and the traditional names given to them depending on the month they appear.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases.

We’ll update this article multiple times each week with the latest moonrise, moonset, Full Moon schedule, and some of what you can see in the sky each week.

The Full Moon in May 2024 is the Flower Moon and that will happen at 9:53 a.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.

Here’s the complete list of Full Moons this year and their traditional names.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases.
We’ll update this article multiple times each week with the latest moonrise, moonset, Full Moon schedule, and some of what you can see in the sky each week.
The Full Moon in May 2024 is the Flower Moon and that will happen at 9:53 a.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.
Here’s the complete list of Full Moons this year and their traditional names.

2024 Full Moon schedule and names of each

(all times Eastern)

Jan. 25 — 12:54 p.m. — Wolf Moon 🐺
Feb. 24 —7:30 a.m. — Snow Moon ❄️
March 25 — 3 a.m. — Worm Moon 🪱
April 23 — 7:49 p.m. — Pink Moon 🎀
May 23 — 9:53 a.m. — Flower Moon 🌷
June 21 — 9:08 p.m. — Strawberry Moon 🍓
July 21 — 6:17 a.m. — Buck Moon 🦌
Aug. 19 — 2:26 p.m. — Sturgeon Moon 🐟
Sept. 17 — 10:34 p.m. — Corn Moon 🌽
Oct. 17 — 7:26 a.m. — Hunter’s Moon 🏹
Nov. 15 — 4:28 p.m. — Beaver Moon 🦫
Dec. 15 — 4:02 a.m. — Cold Moon 🥶

The phases of the Moon in May 2024

Comments

Big freeze drove early humans out of Europe

From BBC News, By Pallab Ghosh- Science correspondent, Edited by - Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, PHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Image caption, Remains of a primitive human species known as Homo erectus have been found in Europe dating back to 1.4 million years ago. A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows. Ocean sediments from 1.1 million years ago show temperatures suddenly dropped more than 5C, scientists say. They say our early ancestors couldn't have survived as they didn't have heating or warm clothes. Until now, the consensus had been that humans had existed in Europe continuously for 1.5 million years. Ancient humans' stone tools found in Kenya Ancient human remains found in County Armagh Ancient humans survived longer than we thought Evidence for the big freeze is found in sediments in the seabed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal. Layers are deposited eac

Email (required) * Constant Contact Use. Comet Nishimura swings by for binoculars and telescopes

From - Sky & Tellescope, By - Alan Macrobert, Edited by - Amal Udawatta Comet Nishimura on the morning of September 5th, on its way in. The comet is the green bit at left. The star cluster at upper right is the Beehive. The brilliant light at lower right is Venus. Right-click image to open higher-res version in new tab. Michael Jäger took this view "from my observatory in Martinsberg, Lower Austria." It's a stack of eight 30-second exposures he made using a DSLR camera with a 50-mm lens at f/2.5. Comet Nishimura swings by for binoculars and telescopes. Comet Nishimura (2023 P1), discovered just last month, is brightening toward its September 17th perihelion. The comet starts this week very low in the dawn sky. You'll need a low view to the east-northeast on the mornings of September 9th, 10th, and maybe 11th. The farther north you live the better. The waning crescent Moon won't pose interference. By the 13th or 14th the comet shifts to the low evening sky,

INDIA’S CHANDRAYAAN 3 LANDS ON THE MOON; RUSSIA'S LUNA 25 CRASHES

From - Sky & Telescope By - David Dikinson, Edited by - Amal Udawatta, The first surface image received from Chandrayaan 3. ISRO In a first for the nation, India’s Chandrayaan 3 soft-landed in the lunar south pole region of the Moon. Russia’s Luna 25 lander crashed, however. Today was a “historic day for India’s space sector,” says India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, on X , formerly known as Twitter. "Congratulations to ISRO for the remarkable success of Chandrayaan 3 lunar mission.” The landing occurred near Manzinus U Crater on the lunar nearside at 12:34 Universal Time (UT) (8:34 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, or EDT) on Wednesday, August 23rd. This makes India the fourth nation to soft-land on the Moon, after the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China. ESA’s European Space Tracking system (ESTRACK) and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) partnered with ISRO to provide global tracking coverage for Chandrayaan 3. A cheering mission contr

Nature Hub

Search This Blog