April’s Pink Full Moon 4-25

The Sky This Week, 2013 April 23 – 30 — Naval Oceanography Portal

Full Moon occurs on the 25th at 3:57 pm Eastern Daylight Time. April’s Full Moon is popularly known as the Grass Moon, Fish Moon, Growing Moon, or Pink Moon among various cultures.

This month’s Full Moon is characterized by a very small partial lunar eclipse which will be visible throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. At its maximum just over one percent of the Moon’s disc will be covered by Earth’s umbral shadow. This is the final umbral eclipse in saros number 112, which began in the year 859 and will end in the year 2139. [mjh: That sentence blows my mind.]

The Sky This Week, 2013 April 23 – 30 — Naval Oceanography Portal