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Watch and photograph the final Supermoon of 2021 called Strawberry Moon

Tonight (Thursday, June 24, 2021), the sky will witness full moon (Final Supermoon of this year) which is called the 'Strawberry Moon' - it has been named so since around this time the Native Americans start collecting the ripe strawberries.



Furthermore, it is also called the "hot moon" since this full moon marks the hot summer time because it rises right around the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Many sky gazers and astronomers will be out to take the snaps of the Strawberry Moon.


Some of the other full moon names are as follows.

Beaver Moon 
Cold Moon / Long Night's Moon 
Corn / Harvest  Moon
Pink Moon 
Snow Moon 
Sturgeon Moon 
Wolf Moon 
Worm Moon 

Some qualifying words used with the moon are as follows

First quarter Moon
Full Moon
Last quarter Moon
New Moon
Waning crescent Moon
Waning gibbous Moon
Waxing crescent Moon
Waxing gibbous Moon

Some examples of 'Lunar' as qualifying word are as follows

Lunar craters 
Lunar eclipse
Lunar horns
Lunar landscape
Lunar month
Lunar vehicles

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