John Ashley at Glacier National Park, Montana, wrote: “Even the smallest full moon of the year can be made to appear huge by including a foreground object that is many miles away from the camera. Mount St. Nicholas (9,377 feet) was 34 miles from my camera for the Strawberry Moon rise last night through broken clouds. The moon was significantly farther. “Farman Shams in Pakistan wrote on June 9: “Read your article about smallest full moon due to lunar apogee, so I captured tonight’s full moon and compared it with last year’s supermoon.”Eliot Herman in Tuscon also compared the June full moon with the November 2016 supermoon. He wrote: “A comparison of the closest supermoon since 1948 on November 14, 2016 with farthest mini-moon on June 9, 2017. Both images captured with a Questar telescope and a Nikon D800 camera. The images were combined with Photoshop.”A lovely shot of the June 10, 2017 moon from Peter Ryan in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.Rise of the Strawberry Micro-Moon from Jacob Baker in Fall River, Massachusetts. He wrote: “Composite photo consisting of 20 exposures taken every 8 minutes. Total exposure time is 2 hours and 40 minutes. Ahhh, my aching back … :-)”Chander Devgun in India wrote on June 9: “Moon rising!!”Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan wrote from New York City: “This is a 14-image composite of the Strawberry Moon rising from behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Each moon frame is spaced 3 minutes apart.”Eliot Herman in Tucson caught the moon setting on June 10. He wrote: “The purple Earth’s shadow still envelops the mountains, with the moon above.”Sue Christopher in San Dimas, California caught the moon – just past full – near Saturn on the evening of June 9, 2017.Zefri Besar in Brunei Darussalam caught the moon – just past full – near Saturn on the morning of June 10, 2017.Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan captured the moon and Saturn from downtown Manhattan, New York City. He wrote: “This is a single-exposure, slow-speed capture of the Strawberry Moon and Saturn in a single frame using the telephoto lens. They were separated by 4 degrees on Friday.”Crepuscular rays from full moonlight, in Hong Kong, morning of June 10, 2017 via Matthew Chin.Martin Marthadinata in Indonesia wrote: “Hi, EarthSky. Today I have shot beautiful mini-full-moon rising behind Mount Arjuna, East Java Indonesia, just one hour after moonrise. Fortunately, clouds block the moonlight so that the rays are not over-exposed.”Ken Gallagher Photography in Arizona caught the moon on Friday morning – June 9, 2017 – when it was closest to full and also smallest as seen from the U.S.
Our Editor-in-Chief Deborah Byrd works to keep all the astronomy balls in the air between EarthSky's website, YouTube page and social media platforms. She's the primary editor of our popular daily newsletter and a frequent host of EarthSky livestreams. Deborah created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she won the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.
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