(WLUK) — A full moon is always a beautiful addition to our night skies, but Tuesday night’s “full strawberry moon” might be tougher to see than others during the year.

The full strawberry moon we’re going to see won’t be pink like a strawberry or anything like that, but it is unusual in a different way.

The full moon in the month of June is dubbed the strawberry moon because it’s the full moon that occurs closest to when strawberries are ready for picking in many places.

Moonrise is a bit after 8:30 in the evening, and moonset is just before 5 a.m. The thing about this full moon, though, is just how low in the sky it will remain.

June’s full moon tends to be the lowest full moon of the year. December tends to be the highest overhead. It basically mirrors what the sun does — which is highest in June and lowest in December.

But this full moon in particular Here’s why.

The pull of the sun causes the moon’s orbit around the Earth to wobble with a period of about 18.6 years. When the orbit is most affected, it’s called a “major lunar standstill” — and it’s where we’re at right now.

So, this strawberry moon is the lowest since 2006, and will be the lowest until June of 2043.

The result is that tonight’s full moon will only be about 17 degrees above the horizon. If you hold your fist out at arm’s length, that’s about one and a half fists above the horizon.

To put it in perspective, at the other extreme at the “minor” lunar standstill, this same full moon is about 30 degrees above the horizon — nearly twice as high.