Subj : Stargazing News - August 9th, 2025
To   : All
From : CJ
Date : Fri Aug 08 2025 06:07 am

Saturday August 9, 2025 

Full Sturgeon Moon

The full moon of August will occur on Saturday morning, August 9 at 3:55 a.m.
EDT, 12:55 a.m. PDT, or 07:55 UT. Since the moon will be getting ready to set
in the Americas at that time, the moon will look almost full on Friday evening
and then ever-so-slightly less than full when it rises just after sunset on
Saturday evening. The moon will not climb very high in the sky due to its
position almost 4 degrees below the already low summertime ecliptic. The
August full moon, colloquially called the "Sturgeon Moon", "Red Moon", "Green
Corn Moon", and "Grain Moon", always shines among or near the stars of
Aquarius or, in this case, Capricornus. The indigenous Anishinaabe people of
the Great Lakes region call it Manoominike-giizis, the Wild Rice Moon, or
Miine Giizis, the Blueberry Moon. The Cree Nation of central USA and Canada
calls the August full moon Ohpahowip?sim, the Flying Up Moon. The
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of Eastern North America call it Sesk?ha, the
Freshness Moon.

(Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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