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Flower Moon Peaks Friday As May Brings Two Full Moons

Occurring near lunar apogee, it will look slightly smaller than a typical full moon.

Of the impact craters, ancient lava flows and other lunar features the Artemis II astronauts observed during an April 6 flyby, a crater known as the Orientale basin was perhaps the most prominent. Spanning nearly 600 miles, the 3.8 billion year old crater (seen in the upper center of this photo) had never been seen with the naked eye prior to the mission.
Rituales para hacer con la Luna llena de mayo, conocida como la "Luna de las Flores" (imagen ilustrativa generada con IA)
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Conoce cuáles son algunos de los eventos astronómicos de mayo, los cuales incluirán dos lunas llenas

Overview

  • The Flower Moon reaches its formal peak at 1:23 p.m. ET on Friday, May 1, though it will look full Friday night and on the nights around it.
  • Best viewing comes at sunset as the Moon rises low in the east and climbs higher by midnight, and it can be enjoyed with the naked eye from a dark, open horizon.
  • This full moon is a micromoon because it occurs near apogee, when the Moon sits farther from Earth and appears a touch smaller and dimmer than usual.
  • May ends with a second full moon on May 31, a calendar blue moon that is simply the month’s second full moon rather than a change in color.
  • The busy skywatching stretch also features the Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaking around May 5–6, which NASA notes can yield up to about 50 meteors per hour.