The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.

Tonight's Full Moon, called the Bucky Moon, rises in the southeast and sets in the southwest, tracing a low path through the southern sky.

July’s full moon is called "the Buck Moon” because in July, velvet antler growth, called antlerogenesis, makes an older buck’s rack often very noticeable and actually at its peak growth rate.