Full Moon over Tambobo Bay, Negros Oriental

Image Courtesy: Girlie Cervantes

The largest moon of 2013 will rise over the Philippines at 7.32pm (11:32 GMT) on the evening of 23rd June. Astronomers will know it as the “perigee moon”, farmers the “strawberry moon” while bloggers and tweeters will promote it as a “supermoon of 2013”; fun loving sailors will know it as the best excuse to have a beach party somewhere along the shores of the Verde Island Passage near Puerto Galera.