Welcome to Summer And A Full Strawberry Moon

Welcome to Summer!  Summer officially began at 6:34 PM EDT today.  Coincidentally, this year the summer solstice also coincides with the full “Strawberry Moon” of June which officially occurred at 7:02 AM EDT this morning.  This has not happened since 1967 and won’t happen again until 2062. Try to take a look, weather permitting, at the virtually full moon rising a little before 9pm EDT tonight – it should be quite a sight and a great way to start your summer.

Here’s a photo I took last night of the Moon with about 40X magnification – Starblast 4.5 telescope, 25mm eyepiece with 2X Barlow with variable polarizing filter.