The July 2025 full 'Buck Moon' will give stargazers an opportunity to appreciate several distinct quirks of orbital mechanics at work! For starters, it falls close to the summer solstice, a time of the year when the sun rides particularly high in the sky, while the moon tracks a low path over the southern horizon.

Sky watchers around the world were treated to a spectacular full Moon last night as July's Buck Moon glowed in the sky. The first full Moon of summer in the northern hemisphere shone brightly on Thursday night (July 10). As one of the lowest-lying full Moon's of the year, you may have noticed it looked a little different.

Full moons’ nicknames typically relate to something from that time of year. July’s full moon is called the “Buck Moon” because this is when bucks' (male deer) new antlers have grown more sizeable after starting late in the spring.