If you can see the moon tonight. It is the elusive Blue Moon. It's only seen once every 3 to 4 years!
Stupid clouds are hiding it from me.
If you can see the moon tonight. It is the elusive Blue Moon. It's only seen once every 3 to 4 years!
Stupid clouds are hiding it from me.
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I took a few pictures of last nights moon.
Is it just tonight, Cinds?
Call me thick but if it can wait until Monday then I'll have a better chance of seeing it (am orf to the Costa) Last month I quite enjoyed watching Venus and Jupiter(???) despite naffing up every photo that I tried to take!
I had to look up what a blue moon actually was.
I came across this whilst I was at it. Something I sort of took for granted as a kid - the older you get the more incredible it is IMO.
When looking at the Moon tonight, however, perhaps donât think about the vagaries of definitions and phase. Wonder instead at the celestial objectâs beauty, and the fact that 46 years ago this month, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on it.
A Blue Moon is a full moon that happens as a second full moon in a month. We normally see 1 full moon per month. We had last one in July 2, and then this one tonight,
Bloody skies are full of bloody clouds where I am.
I had to look up what a blue moon actually was.
I came across this whilst I was at it. Something I sort of took for granted as a kid - the older you get the more incredible it is IMO.
When looking at the Moon tonight, however, perhaps donât think about the vagaries of definitions and phase. Wonder instead at the celestial objectâs beauty, and the fact that 46 years ago this month, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on it.
Soozy Woo. So bloody fab to see you back here. Xx
Is it just tonight, Cinds?
Call me thick but if it can wait until Monday then I'll have a better chance of seeing it (am orf to the Costa) Last month I quite enjoyed watching Venus and Jupiter(???) despite naffing up every photo that I tried to take!
Yes, it is just tonight.
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, taking a pic with my phone
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, taking a pic with my phone
Great picture supes
Below is a photo I took the other day (not the blue moon). It was a particularly clear night.
I did not have a tripod so the clarity is not the best. Included a bigger link below.
http://postimg.org/image/y9cifk2kl/full/
Is it just tonight, Cinds?
Call me thick but if it can wait until Monday then I'll have a better chance of seeing it (am orf to the Costa) Last month I quite enjoyed watching Venus and Jupiter(???) despite naffing up every photo that I tried to take!
Unfortunately - it's only once in a blue moon
A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.
The phrase has nothing to do with the actual color of the moon, although a literal "blue moon" (the moon appearing with a tinge of blue) may occur in certain atmospheric conditions: e.g., when there are volcanic eruptions or when exceptionally large fires leave particles in the atmosphere.
The term has traditionally referred to an "extra" moon, where a year which normally has 12 moons has 13 instead. The "blue moon" reference is applied to the third moon in a season with four moons,[1] thus correcting the timing of the last month of a season that would have otherwise been expected too early. This happens every two to three years (seven times in the Metonic cycle of 19 years).[2] The March 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope misinterpreted the traditional definition, which led to the modern colloquial misunderstanding that a blue moon is a second full moon in a single solar calendar month with no seasonal link.
Owing to the rarity of a blue moon, the term "blue moon" is used colloquially to mean a rare event, as in the phrase "once in a blue moon".[3][4]
One lunation (an average lunar cycle) is 29.53 days. There are about 365.24 days in a tropical year. Therefore, about 12.37 lunations (365.24 days divided by 29.53 days) occur in a tropical year. In the widely used Gregorian calendar, there are 12 months (the word month is derived from moon[5]) in a year, and normally there is one full moon each month. Each calendar year contains roughly 11 days more than the number of days in 12 lunar cycles. The extra days accumulate, so every two or three years (seven times in the 19-year Metonic cycle), there is an extra full moon. The extra moon necessarily falls in one of the four seasons, giving that season four full moons instead of the usual three, and, hence, a blue moon.
The suggestion has been made that the term "blue moon" for "intercalary month" arose by folk etymology, the "blue" replacing the no-longer-understood belewe, 'to betray'. The original meaning would then have been "betrayer moon", referring to a full moon that would "normally" (in years without an intercalary month) be the full moon of spring, while in an intercalary year, it was "traitorous" in the sense that people would have had to continue fasting for another month in accordance with the season of Lent.[6][7]
The earliest recorded English usage of the term blue moon is found in an anti-clerical pamphlet (attacking the Roman clergy, and cardinal Thomas Wolsey in particular) by two converted Greenwich friars, William Roy and Jerome Barlow, published in 1528 under the title Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I say no thynge but trothe. The relevant passage reads:[8]
<dl><dd>O churche men are wyly foxes [...] Yf they say the mone is blewe / We must beleve that it is true / Admittynge their interpretacion. (ed. Arber 1871 p. 114)</dd></dl>It is not clear from the context that this refers to intercalation; the context of the passage is a dialogue between two priest's servants, spoken by the character "Jeffrey" (a brefe dialoge betwene two preste's servauntis, named Watkyn and Ieffraye). The intention may simply be that Jeffrey makes an absurd statement, "the moon is blue", to make the point that priests require laymen to believe in statements even if they are patently false. But in the above interpretation of "betrayer moon", Jeffrey may also be saying that it is up to the priests to say when Lent will be delayed, by announcing "blue moons" which laymen have no means to verify.
Last night I was down at my caravan and got very excited as I looked out of the window - I shouted to my husband and grandson about the beautiful pristine moon I could see through the pine trees. It was simply beautiful.
They simply looked at each other in amazement and said 'It's a street lamp'
I saw it. Was bright as hell here. V impressive.
I don't get all the hype....it's just a full moon!!!!
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