The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good opportunity to view it.

The next full moon is Saturday, Aug. 9, and is sometimes called the Sturgeon Moon. It gets that name from when "The Great Lakes and Lake Champlain sturgeon were said to be most readily caught," per the Old Farmer's Almanac.

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After traveling billions of miles through the solar system, New Horizons sent home stunning images of Pluto and its moons, making headlines around the world.

On July 10, July's full moon will be at its peak at 4:37 p.m. ET, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. It will be below the horizon when it reaches its peak, but backyard astronomers can face southeast to watch the moon rise just after sunset. The full moon will be visible from July 9 to July 10, according to NASA.

Another Full Moon will return to the skies across central Indiana the night of July 10th. These full moons contain different names, depending on the month. These names date back to the 1930s,