The lunar cycle means that the full moon tends to fall on slightly different date each month – here’s when the July 2022 supermoon is
. As a result, it appeared as much as 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than it would have at the apogee.
This made it the largest supermoon since 1948 – and we won’t see a full moon as close to Earth again until 25 November 2034.The majority of pre-modern calendars used the moon as the basis for the names of their months, a convention ended by the introduction of the solar Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Some of the popularly used names, such as the “strawberry moon” and “harvest moon”, do seem to be Algonquin, according to a
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