Honey Moon?

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Right now, there is a exciting event happening. The Moon will become an amber or honey color. This will end very soon, so you should see it very soon. This kind is very rare - not only will it be honey-colored, it extends to the "unlucky-numbered day", it is a full moon (while in its lowest place for a full moon), and the moon will reach its closest approach. A full explination from Slooh is here:

On the night of June 12th and continuing into the morning of Friday, the 13th, the famously unlucky day, a full Honey Moon will appear low in the sky - the first time this creepy combination has happened in decades.








Slooh will cover the Honey Moon live on Thursday, June 12th starting at 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT / 01:30 UTC (6/13) - International Times: http://goo.gl/5gyHMz. Slooh will broadcast the event live for two hours from Slooh member controlled observatory sites: (1) off the west coast of Africa, at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, and (2) the Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile (PUC) near Santiago, Chile.








Viewers can watch the full Honey Moon broadcast free on Slooh.com. The image stream will be accompanied by discussions led by Slooh host, Geoff Fox, Slooh astronomer, Bob Berman, and Slooh Observatory Engineer, Paul Cox, who will be reporting in live at Slooh’s Canary Islands observatory. Viewers can follow updates on the show by using the hashtag #Sloohhoneymoon.








This will be the most amber or honey colored full moon of 2014, especially when it rises at sunset Thursday evening. Its exact moment of fullness happens a few minutes after midnight EDT -- the opening minutes of Friday the 13th. Added to all this, its closest approach of the month unfolds the very next night, so it will also appear unusually large for a full Moon.








Says astronomer Bob Berman, "Is this full Moon of June the true origin of the word honeymoon, since it is amber, and since weddings were traditionally held this month? That phrase dates back nearly half a millennium, to 1552, but one thing has changed: weddings have shifted, and are now most often held in August or September. The idea back then was that a marriage is like the phases of the Moon, with the full Moon being analogous to a wedding. Meaning, it's the happiest and "brightest" time in a relationship.”








"As for the Friday the 13th," says Berman, "full Moons land on that date only every 14 years, and a year's "highest" or "lowest" full Moons hit it much more rarely still. So this coming Honey Moon is very rare indeed."








Event Overview:








www.slooh.com








Thursday, June 12th








Starts - 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT / 01:30 UTC (6/13)








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