If your eyes have been drawn towards the night sky this week you may well have seen the Strawberry Supermoon – and readers have again taken the opportunity to take some great pictures of this celestial event.
Last night’s cloudless sky in particular afforded ideal conditions to capture some shots of the full moon and you can scroll through down this page to enjoy those taken by members of the Watford Observer Camera Club.
Each month the full moon is given a different nickname depending on the time of year in which it occurs.
Two more lovely pictures of the moon taken by Tracey Phillipps
June’s is so named because it occurs during the strawberry harvest in North America, but this month’s full moon has additional significance because it is also the final supermoon of 2021 – and there is almost a year to wait until the next one.
A supermoon occurs when a full moon is as its closest point of orbit to the Earth.
Stephen Danzig captured this terrific image
It will appear to be at its closest tonight when the moon will be just over 228,000 miles from our planet – but sadly the cloud cover across our area means our best chance of seeing it may have been and gone.
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