August’s Full Sturgeon Moon Lines Up With Perseids, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter

As long as you look at the night sky, August has a ton of nice things in progress this year. Among these is the full moon, also known as the moon of the sturgeons. This is the last full moon of the summer, and it happens on August 9.

According to the Almanaque of the farmer, the full moon will reach its brightness of Pic at 3:55 a.m. on Saturday August 9. So, if you want to see the moon to its brightest, you will want to look for the evening of August 8 and the next morning. It does not matter if you miss it, because the moon will be more complete from August 6 to August 11, you will therefore have a lot of chance of lifting it and seeing it.

Many happens during this full moon, so if you want to do one night, you have other things you can look for. Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune will all be in the southern and eastern sky, aligned well in preparation for the planet’s parade in late August. Venus and Jupiter only appear much later in the evening, but they will be visible to the naked eye. The other three will require a kind of magnification.

The Perseid meteor shower is also active, so you can spy on one or two shooting stars, depending on the dark of the dark outside. The Perseids come from the constellation of Perseus. On the morning of August 9, it will be in the eastern sky alongside Venus and Jupiter, so everything will be in the same general area.

Why is it called the moon of sturgeons?

The sturgeon moon bears the name of the humble sturgeon fish. According to the farmer’s Almanac, Sturgeon was a staple food for the Amerindians in the Great Lakes region, and the fish was much more abundant from the middle at the end of the summer. Of all bone fish, the sturgeon is the most primitive, going back to the Cretaceous more than 120 million years ago. Thus, researchers often refer to fish as a living fossil. It is also a fish with long service life, with an average lifespan of 50 to 60 years. Women of the species can become as old as 150 years.

The other names of the full moon in August include the corn moon, the ricketing moon, the moon of black cherries and the mountain shadows. He was also called a harvesting moon, dividing the name with the full moon of September.