Mother Earth Takes Bite Out of Strawberry Moon in Partial Lunar
Eclipse It’s no transit of Venus, but the so-called strawberry
moon will be an eye-catching sight as Mother Earth's shadow
falls across it in a partial lunar eclipse just before sunrise
on June 4. The Strawberry Moon is supposedly so named in
Algonquin lore because it signals the start of the short harvest
season of the oxidant-rich fruit, according to the Farmers'
Almanac. This eclipse will be visible in North and South
America, Australia, eastern parts of Asia and across the entire
Pacific Ocean, NASA said in a media release. Atlantic viewers in
the United States will see the eclipse just as the moon is
setting, which will give it that uber-plump, bigger-than-life
look against the horizon. This will occur at about 3:00 a.m.
Pacific Daylight Time, NASA said, meaning about 6 a.m. on the
East Coast of Turtle Island, with the maximum effect occurring
about 7:04 a.m. EDT, when 37 percent of the moon's surface will
be darkened by Mother Earth's shado