New Years Eve PARTY GUIDE
"BRINGING IN TWENTY TEN KEMAH STYLE WITH A BLUE MOON"
That's the problem with being "indoctrinated" by the MSM... :-)
By Jay Michaels
Story Published: Dec 30, 2009 at 8:38 PM CST
When somebody says that something happens 'every once in a blue moon,' usually they mean it doesn't happen very often.
A local astronomer says that back in the 1940's, a researcher for 'Sky and Telescope Magazine' managed to misquote the definition of a blue moon as being a second full moon during a calendar month.
He says the Maine Farmer's Almanac defined the third full moon during a season – as a blue moon.
Faulkner Planetarium Manager Rick Greenawald says, “If there were four full moons during one of those seasons, the third full moon was referred to as the blue moon to keep the other moons in line with their traditional interpretation, harvest, hunters, and so forth.”
He says in seven out of 19 years, a total of 13 full moons will occur in a twelve month period; and he says by using the original method blue moons happen more often than the 'two full moons in a calendar month' reckoning.
So is there going to be a full moon in February of this year?
I’m devastated. First, Walter Williams tells me today does not end the decade and now the second full moon of the month is not ‘blue.’ I feel as if my IQ has been lowered 50%.
Wow! Great article! It was an eye-opener. For all my life, I’ve been under the false impression of the “2 new-moons in a month” definition of a blue moon. Now, I now the truth: The third full-moon in a season of four full-moons is a true blue moon!
I’m quite pleased that Sky & Telescope has fessed up to their own errors from 1943 and 1946 which seems to be the cause of the blue-moon confusion.
Thanks for posting it.
Cheers
P.S. - Now I can blow away my buddies with this little tidbit: February CAN have a blue-moon!
Cheers
January: Old Moon, or Moon After Yule
February: Snow Moon, Hunger Moon, or Wolf Moon
March: Sap Moon, Crow Moon or Lenten Moon
April: Grass Moon, or Egg Moon
May: Planting Moon, or Milk Moon
June: Rose Moon, Flower Moon, or Strawberry Moon
July: Thunder Moon, or Hay Moon
August: Green Corn Moon, or Grain Moon
September: Fruit Moon, or Harvest Moon
October: Harvest Moon, or Hunter’s Moon
November: Hunter’s Moon, Frosty Moon, or Beaver Moon
December: Moon Before Yule, or Long Night Moon
Source:
Guy Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar
One of the best astronomical calendars in existence!
I know it’s not a true blue moon, but is it going to be blue in color?
 |
||
| · join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · subscribe · | ||
| Google news searches: exoplanet · exosolar · extrasolar · | ||