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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
On the last day of June, Russians will be able to observe the Strawberry Moon
2026-06-30
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM.RU] Moscow, June 29, 2026, 7:30 PM — Regnum News Agency. On the night of June 30, Russians will be able to observe the first summer full moon, the Strawberry Moon.
… when Native Americans harvested the ripened fruit wherever such things were first noticed by whoever defined it, because surely the harvest is earlier or later depending on the planting zone. Space.com claims it was named by the Native American tribes for their harvest time, but that seems absurd, given the tribes an American site would reference live across the entire continent of North America. It is also the first full moon of summer, following soon after the June 21 summer solstice.
The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) announced this on its Telegram channel.

The Strawberry Moon is the first of three summer full moons, during which Earth's satellite is at its smallest size of the year.

Best visibility is expected between approximately 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM local time. The celestial body will be located to the south.

At the end of January, Moscow residents observed a rare atmospheric phenomenon involving false moons. Two more moons appeared in the sky near Earth's satellite. This illusion occurs when light is refracted by flat, hexagonal ice crystals found in cirrus clouds in the upper atmosphere. Another name for this optical effect is parselene.

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