The Full Moon of June can be very bright

Last Saturday in May many people around the world came to observe the Great Full Moon by 2012, as was announced.But they forgot to announce that yet another full moon is super luminous for this year: next month, which will occur between 3 and 4 June (June 4 11:12 UT) 2012. At that time will have passed through its perigee 11 hours before and this will be 358,482 miles, slightly farther than in May (356,953 km), but in the southern hemisphere, the full moon will be farther south than in May, flying over the latitude 21 ° 12 'South, at the height of Tocopilla, so it will be brighter still.

The Full Moon of June can be very bright for the southerners, as the ecliptic, the path that moves the sun and planets in the sky, reaches its southernmost point on the nights of Winter Solstices. Also that the moon does not always there, because its orbital plane is inclined 5 degrees to the ecliptic, so that the moon can reach 28 ° south fly, but this is still missing, we will have to wait until 2023. For now we will see how the South is coming, year and year.

Recommendations to see the Full Moons super luminous: If you are observing with a telescope or binoculars, wear sunglasses to avoid glare on something. Filters help more moles or partially cover the entry of light with cardboard or removing the small cover to the top of some telescopes.

Can also be seen by projection , pointing the telescope or binoculars, the moon and projecting the light exiting the eye in a white cardboard, is ... great, and can share the show with others.

The photographers will use these opportunities to take pictures of the full moon that appears from the eastern horizon until it disappears by the West. Its telephoto lenses allow Moon to bring to hand.

What can be recognized on the Moon: The first to appear of the Moon, as the low eastern horizon, the seas and Fecunditatis Crisium the Lunar Rabbit ears, and then follows the Mare Tranquillitatis, where it dropped the Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in July 1969?

The south side of the moon will be its brightest; the Tyco crater left by the impact of an asteroid on the Moon makes a mere 108 million years, according to the dating of samples returned during the Apollo 17 mission.