A Solstice Moon

Rising reverse the atmosphere Sun, June’s Plump Moon passed off within about 28 hours of the solstice. The Moon stays shut to the Sun’s route alongside the ecliptic plane and so whereas the solstice Sun climbed excessive in daytime skies, June’s Plump Moon remained low that evening as viewed from northern latitudes. In actuality, the Plump Moon hugs the horizon in this June 21 rooftop evening sky seek from Bursa, Turkey, made from exposures made every 10 minutes between moonrise and moonset. In 2024 the Moon furthermore reached a necessary lunar standstill, an impolite in the monthly north-south vary of moonrise and moonset triggered by the precession of the Moon’s orbit over an 18.6 300 and sixty five days cycle. Which ability that, this June solstice Plump Moon became once at its southernmost moonrise and moonset alongside the horizon.