It is called the “rose” moon, the “strawberry” moon or the “honey” moon and it appears every year in June. This year again, a supermoon tinged with reddish hues will reveal itself in the sky on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 5:43 a.m. (Paris time). If this phenomenon is nicknamed “strawberry moon”, it has nothing to do with the fruit, reports La Dépêche.
NASA explains that this naming dates back to the 1930s. At that time, several Native American tribes gave different names to the moon depending on the month of the year. Thus, for the month of June, the full moon is called the “strawberry moon” in reference to the rather short strawberry harvest season in the region. For the “rose moon” the reason is the same: they usually bloom in June and for the “honeymoon” it is again at this time of year that it is harvested.
However, this Sunday, the full “strawberry” moon is expected to be 384,000 kilometers from our planet. In 2022, the “strawberry” moon was 14% larger and 30% brighter than normal.
