Posted on 10/01/2020 9:45:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A blue moon, which will occur Oct. 31, will be the second full moon in the same calendar month — which is the reason behind its name.
“Is it going to be a blue moon up in the sky? Sorry, everybody, no,” Gonyea said.
According to Gonya, there is a seasonal blue moon and there is a monthly blue moon.
“In olden times, they referred to the blue moon as the third full moon out of four in a season, so this autumn, September, October, and November is the autumn season,” he said. “September, we had a full moon. October, we’re getting two full moons, and then there’ll be a full moon in November. So that second one in October was referred to as the Blue Moon as well in olden times. We will get another one of those in August of the next year 2021.”
According to the Farmers’ Almanac, the last time a full moon happened on Halloween night in all U.S. time zones was in 1944.
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Should be an Orange moon.
First, it’s Halloween. Second, its the “election moon”, and the moon should be the proper color.
Last time there were quite a few people who actually thought a ‘blue moon’ meant the moon was going to turn blue for some reason. They were planning a watch party to go look at it.
And Trump was ‘not their president’ -if you catch my drift.
But not at the same time.
Out here in California and the moon is very orange every night right now because there’s smoke in the air
I hope you know that the ‘blue moon’ has nothing to do with the color.
It just means the 2nd full moon in one single month.
Great song though...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgi1txjrKZk
Apparently the first one is tonight.
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Should would be askairt?
The original definition in the Old Maine Almanac was the third full moon in an astronomical season containing four. It was called a "blue" moon because the other moons had seasonal names, and the last moon before winter was the Yule Moon. Astronomical seasons are delimited by the cardinal points of the sun, the equinoxes and solstices. In 19 solar years there are almost exactly 235 lunar cycles, to within about 90 minutes, on average. Going by the Maine rule, there would be 235 - 4 x 3 x 19 = 7 extra or "blue" moons every 19 years. The second moon in a calendar year rule also produces about 7 blue moons every 19 years, give or take. If January has a blue moon by this definition, March generally will too, because it's hard to fit two full moons into January and another one the following February, so two more turn up in March. This happened in 1999 and 2018. The average time between full moons is 29.5306 days or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.8 seconds.
IOW, the Earth, our moon and the Sun are right on course.
I believe identifying blue moons, super moons, blood moons, etc. causes scientifically illiterate people to believe we’re in unusual times. Yes...full moons at sun perihelion and moon apogee or whatever cause eclipse effects or higher tides, but many events are simply a fluke of the calendar. 29 days in a lunar month? Of course moon phases may repeat in a given month. Wait until they start reporting duplicate new moons within a month...they’ll probably call it the month with two dark moons or something.
I am a total astronomy nerd. Summer of 1971 when I was 13 there was an unusually massive, long lasting aurora visible from Lower Michigan and southward. I called the Detroit TV station to report and was told it was just the planes landing at Selfridge. I learned to never underestimate the lack if scientific knowledge among the general population.
Blue moons are as rare as hens’ beaks.
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