A RESIDENT captured stunning photos of a June's Strawberry Moon above Colchester landmarks.
Mike Pountney captured the images on Thursday evening in Colchester town centre.
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He said: "The full moon was due on the June 24 but the forecast was for a cloudy evening.
"So I decided to take photographs of the moon on Wednesday evening when the sky was completely clear and the moon was 99 per cent full, in its waxing gibbous state.
"The first image was as the moon rose above Jumbo and the second image, taken a little later and from a different position, caught the moon passing above the roof clock at St Helena's school."
June's full moon is often referred to as the Strawberry Moon because it falls during the strawberry harvesting season in America.
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