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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