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July 12, 2019
By Gordon Johnston
The Next Full Moon (click here) is the Buck Moon, the Thunder Moon, and the Guru Moon.
The next full Moon will be on Tuesday afternoon, July 16, 2019, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 5:38 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday night through Thursday morning.
The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published "Indian" names for the full Moons in the 1930's. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in July and the first full Moon of Summer, the Algonquin tribes in what is now the Eastern USA called this full Moon the Buck Moon. Early Summer is normally when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. They also called this the Thunder Moon because of early Summer's frequent thunderstorms.
