The fourth full moon of the year is just around the corner and British stargazers are hoping for clearer weather to see it after record rains in March.
Shrouded in mystique for millennia, the full moon has inspired everything from horror films and religious holidays to outlandish doomsday conspiracy theories.
Moon names have also made their way into pop culture in recent years, with April’s full moon being dubbed the “Pink Moon” – here’s all you need to know.
Is there a full moon today in April?
Next full moon reached Peak UK at 5:34 am IN Thursday 6.4according to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
This time means the Moon will be most visible at night starting April 5, peaking just before sunrise – here’s this year’s full full moon calendar:
- January 6 (23:07)
- February 5 (18:28)
- March 7 (12:40)
- April 6 (5:34)
- May 5 (18:34)
- June 4 (04:41)
- July 3 (12:38)
- August 1 (19:31)
- August 31 (02:35)
- September 29 (10:57)
- October 28 (21:24)
- November 27 (09:16)
- December 27 (00:33)
Why have names like “Pink Moon” become so popular?
According to the American, the full moon in April is known in some regions as the “Pink Moon”. Peasant almanacthis seems to have become the gold standard for such questions.
According to the publication, the name of this month is not associated with the color of the ball.
Instead, it explains that “the reality is not as mystical or spectacular,” adding: “The full moon in April often coincided with the early spring bloom of a particular wildflower native to eastern North America: phlox subulata—usually creeping phlox or moss phlox. – also called “pink moss”.
“Because of this seasonal association, this full moon has been called the ‘pink’ moon.”
Similar lunar names and their supposed meanings have gained currency in recent years, and these designations are usually attributed to Indian tribes.
They seem to have become more popular since the 2014 lunar eclipse — a phenomenon colloquially known as a “blood moon” because it gives the moon a reddish tint — sparked interest in such romanticized names.
According to Laura Redish, director and co-founder of Native Languages of the Americas, there is no standardized Native American calendar, although NASA claims that these names originated from the Algonquian tribe, which is part of a larger cultural language group called the Algonquian. .
According to a list published by the Council of Tribes of the Algonquian Nation in 2005, some of the common names such as “Strawberry Moon” and “Harvest Moon” appear to be Algonquian.
Others, such as the “wolf moon”, are not – the tribe apparently referred to January as “the long lunar month”.
Different tribes used different calendars, Ms. Redish said, and a number of calendars appear to have been searched for common names, while some of the popular nicknames are essentially inventions.
Peasant almanac says the names “come from a variety of places, including Native American, colonial American, and European sources.”
Source: I News
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