The full "Flower Moon" around the world

[LazyHippo]

Lets take a look to May's full "Flower Moon" with stunning photos around the world. It made its appearance below the stars of the constellation Virgo.

 

Its named Flower Moon cause of the blooms that appear in the northern hemisphere and this one passing very close of the blue-white star Spica and red Arcturus.
 

Photographer Lokman Vural took what its usually called "Manhattanhenge" of the full moon on May 1st as it rose through the concrete jungle of New York.

 

The red full moon shines between skyscrapers in New York City. (Image credit: Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 

 

Gary Hershorn found a perfect location from which to capture the Flower Moon as it haloed the Statue of Liberty just a few miles away on that same night.

 

 

The lunar disk glows behind the Statue of Liberty on May 1. (Image credit: Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

 

 

Hershorn captured yet another well-timed view of moonrise from Jersey City featuring the silhouette of the Statue of Liberty's golden torch.

 

 

The Statue of Liberty's torch silhouetted in front of the full moon. (Image credit: Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

 

 

Isa Terli snapped a magnificent photo of the moon glowing behind the Beyazit Fire Tower in Istanbul, Turkiye.

 

 

The tip of the Beyazit Fire Tower glows green behind the May full moon. (Image credit: Photo by Isa Terli/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 

 

Meanwhile in Iraq, Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed could capture the lunar disk rose over the mountains close to the city of Erbil.

 

 

Flower Moon interacts with a mountain at Iraq (Image credit: Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed)

 

 

Davide Pischettola could achieve taking the moon as it appeared atop the ancient coastal defence tower of Torre Calderina close to the Italian town of Molfetta.

 

 

The full moon rests atop a stone tower in Italy. (Image credit: Photo by Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

 

 

Deepak Gupta captured the glowing lunar disk above a statue of Lord Buddha in Lucknow, India. The date, May 1st, marks the celebration of Buddha Purnima, also called Vesak and Buddha Jayanti, when worshippers commemorate the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha.

 

 

The May full moon rises on the holy day of Buddha Purnima. (Image credit: Photo by Deepak Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

 

 

Sergei Gapon took a great photo of the Flower Moon as it nestled between buildings and skescrapers over Warsaw, Poland. The refraction effect made by Earth's atmosphere kinda changed the outline of the lunar disk.

 

 

Flower Moon at Poland. (Image credit: Sergei Gapon)

 

 

Fabrice Coffrini took a picture of the near-full moon shining to the right of a silhouetted tree at Lucens in western Switzerland on April 30th.

 

 

(Image credit: Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images)

 

 

This well-timed shot of a passenger aircraft crossing the lunar disk was snapped by Kirill Kudryavtsev in the skies above Berlin, Germany on April 30th, as bright craters, sweeping mountain ranges and dark lunar seas marked the surface of the natural satellite.

 

 

(Image credit: Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images)

Edited May 6 by LazyHippo

[RedBaird]

On 5/3/2026 at 4:39 PM, LazyHippo said:

named Flower Moon cause of the blooms that appear in the northern hemisphere

 

I had assumed that a similar event would happen in the Southern Hemisphere later in the year, but the Google AI says that they call it the "Frost Moon"!  😮 

 

 

I suspect that our southern friends might have an equivalent to the north's flower moon, though?