Tonight’s full moon is something special. It is a blue moon! No, don’t go rushing to outer space in the hope of getting bleu cheese – not only is the moon not made of cheese but it isn’t actually going to turn blue either. The term “blue moon” refers to the second full moon of a month, something that happens only every two or three years (to be exact, seven out of every nineteen years). In fact, we won’t have another blue moon until 31 July, 2015.
tonight’s blue moon
Get out there and enjoy this blue moon so you don’t have to wait three years until the next one! And if you want to learn more about blue moons you can do worse than to click on this post.
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We did! It is September now and blue skies! 🙂
I was just trying to remember what a blue moon was when my wife mentioned that it was blue moon tonight. Nice photo! I have to disagree with you about one thing though. The moon is primarily composed of cheese.
It was beautiful, even as the sun was rising, the moon shone bright.
@Clare and Grant: Darned time zones! But I’m glad you guys got to check it out.
@Larry: Mmm…cheese…mmm…
@Gail: Yeah, even with the all the ambient light in NYC it still outshone everything.
Si alguien te a “robado esta foto que harias?
@Arnulfo Diaz: Ejecutarlos.
I think the original blue moon was the 13th full moon of the year, not the second moon of one particular month. Just scanned something about that over on an astronomy website.