July 3rd is the day of the supermoon and will be the day of the deer – Escambray

Other supermoons will occur on August 1 and 28, and on September 29, the federal agency detailed.

The first of four consecutive supermoons this year will happen on July 3 and will be Abbey’s moon, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The astronomical phenomenon occurs when the moon’s natural orbit is closest to Earth, and it also coincides with the full moon, NASA indicated on its official website.

Other supermoons will occur on August 1 and 28, and on September 29, the federal agency detailed.

The Stag Moon has its origins in the name given by the Algonquian tribes, native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, to that full moon in July when it coincided with the time when male antelopes renewed their antlers.

It was also called Thunder Moon because of the frequent storms in early summer; While the Europeans called it High Moon because of the harvest at the beginning of that season of the year.

For the Washington, D.C. area, this full phase will occur near the summer solstice and two degrees lower in the sky at its highest point of June.

Experts suggest that the best way to observe the astronomical phenomenon in all its splendor is in places where there is no light pollution, without surrounding buildings or any obstacles, because the rest looks at the night sky.

The Moon orbits the Earth in an ellipse, an ellipse that moves it closer and farther as it rotates.

The display shows when the orbit of Earth’s only natural satellite is closest to our planet, i.e. at perigee, at an average distance of 384,402 – 356 kilometers and is at the beginning of the full moon period.

Meanwhile, the farthest point of this ellipse is called the aphelion and is, on average, about 405,500 – 406,000 km from Earth.

By the way, even though we see her shining every night without the need for any tool and it provides that feeling that we can touch her, it is nothing more than an illusion.

The light that we see from the moon takes 1.3 seconds to reach us, that is, we see it as it was 1.3 seconds ago.