July’s full moon is known as “Thunder Moon” that beamed beautifully on the Saturday night last week and the pictures around the world are stunning. The moon officially turned full at 12:07 a.m. Sunday morning eastern but appeared full to the casual observer throughout Saturday evening and Sunday’s wee hours, before it set below the western horizon.
The July moon got its name as Native Americans associated frequent late day storms with the mid-summer month. It is also known as the Buck Moon, Ripe Corn Moon, and Hay Moon.
See a number of great shots of this magnificent moon below…
Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan caught this shot from New Jersey and wrote, “Thunder Moon, Guru Purnima, HayMoon, Mead Moon, Ripe Corn Moon, Buck Moon rises slowly, with the clouds threatening to bring down curtains to witness the near full moon (99.9%). We got lucky as the weather gods cleared the clouds briefly to capture there moon clipping the spire of Empire State Building.”
Patti Weeks wrote: “The full moon was rising among the trees above a downtown building on a lovely pre-storm evening, Greenville, North Carolina.”
Credit : Austin Bond Photography
Chirag Upreti caught the nearly full moon rising behind the Statue of Liberty in New York on the morning of July 8. He wrote: “Illuminated at ~99.2% today, the moon takes on a gorgeous reddish-orange hue as it passes behind Lady Liberty.”
