Bird? Plane? Supermoon!
The full moon on 13 July has a few names. In the northern hemisphere, it’s known as the Buck Moon because it’s the time of year when deers’ antlers start to grow. In the southern hemisphere, specifically in South Africa, this holds no real relevance, so the Centre for Astronomical Heritage (CfAH) christened it the Meerkat Moon instead.
If you’d like to. The main reason is that meerkats feature prominently in San mythology, but it’s also a reference to the MeerKAT radio telescope in Carnarvon in the Karoo, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. Together with a sister SKA telescope in Australia, they will produce astronomical images that exceed the Hubble in detail and clarity!
