Pictures have been shared of a rare Buck Moon that shone over East Lancashire this weekend.
If you missed it we have some stunning pictures to share with you.
Lee Mansfield took these pictures of the Buck Moon last night (Sunday, July 21) at Darwen Tower.
In the picture, you can also see sheep grazing as the moon moves over the horizon.
In July, the Full Moon is named the Buck Moon, named after the new antlers that emerge from a buck’s forehead around this time of the year.
It is also called Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, and Wyrt Moon.
Male deer, or bucks, shed their antlers and grow new ones every year.
The name came from a Native American system which uses the different months’ full moons as a calendar to keep track of the seasons.
Other Native American tribes call it Salmon Moon, Raspberry Moon, and Thunder Moon because of the frequent thunderstorms in the summer.
In Celtic, this Moon was known as the Claiming Moon, Wyrt Moon, Herb Moon, and Mead Moon, indicating that July is the time to gather herbs (or wyrts) to dry and use as spices and remedies.
The Anglo-Saxons called it the Hay Moon after the hay harvest in July.
The Royal Astronomical Society’s deputy executive director Dr Robert Massey “there is a lot of these” supermoons, but added: “The moon is a beautiful object – it is a fantastic thing, go out and look at it and enjoy the view.”
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