Quick Pic: A 68-year wait for a moonrise

A full moon rises Monday, the summer solstice, south of Havre near Beaver Creek Park. According to an entry on the Glasgow National Weather Service office's Facebook page, this is the first year since 1948 the full moon has risen during the summer solstice, which is named for the words 'sol,' meaning the sun, and 'stice,' from stitium, meaning to stop. This is because during the solstice the position of the sun does not vary much, giving very slow changes to the time of sunrise and sunset. The solstice also is considered the longest day of the year - Weather Service reports the sunset tonight will be at 9:25 p.m. and sunrise Wednesday at 5:17 a.m. The full moon also is likely to have an amber coloration due to its low altitude over the horizon at this point, the Weather Service Facebook post says.