17.3 day old moon
93.1 percent lit
"Beaver Moon"
by Jamie Carter
Did you see the full “Beaver Moon?” (click here)
Here it is, captured by photographers around the world as our satellite rose spectacularly—and from some locations was eclipsed by the Earth.
If you were in Europe it looked liked any other rising full Moon—spectacular, for sure, though nothing out of the ordinary ... if you can call a glowing orbiting orb “ordinary.”
For those in North America, Australia and eastern Asia the full Moon went a copper-reddish color at all but a slither of its surface entered Earth’s shadow in space....
