FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
The full moon rises over Baltimore this evening at 8:59 p.m. It’s the first full moon since the summer solstice, making it the Hay Moon, or the Thunder Moon. If it seems unusually low in the sky late at night, that’s because, around the solstice, the sunward side of the planet’s northern hemisphere is tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. And because the moon stands opposite the sun when it’s full, that means the full moon is “low” in the night sky in June for the same reason that the midday sun is “high” in the sky.
(SUN PHOTO: Chiaki Kawajiri, 2008)