Blue Moon Tonight

[la_samtyr]

Enjoy! :)

Here's a brief explanation of a blue moon. (Please note: I did not write the following. I just copy/pasted it from a news article.)

By its modern definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month, an astronomical phenomenon that occurs about once every 2.7 years. (The calendar year is 365.24 days long, while a lunar month is 29.53 days; that leaves about 11 extra days after a 12-moon cycle. Every three years or so, that adds up to an extra full moon in a calendar year.)

In the 1800s, the phrase “blue moon” referred to the fourth full moon in a three-month season, and the modern definition was introduced in 1946. But historians say the idiom has been around for roughly 500 years.

I have included the link to the full article below:
http://www .csmonitor.com/ Science/2015/0730/ Blue-moon-on-Friday-Where-does-the-phrase-come-from?cmpid=FB

Comments

[ysilme]

I didn't know what a blue moon is, as we don't have such a lovely name for the phenomen; I always thought it was just a description if the full moon seemed bluer than usual. It's very cloudy, so I don't see anything tonight, but last night the nearly full moon was a perfect sight! :o)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

By its modern definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month, an astronomical phenomenon that occurs about once every 2.7 years. (The calendar year is 365.24 days long, while a lunar month is 29.53 days; that leaves about 11 extra days after a 12-moon cycle. Every three years or so, that adds up to an extra full moon in a calendar year.)

In the 1800s, the phrase “blue moon” referred to the fourth full moon in a three-month season, and the modern definition was introduced in 1946. But historians say the idiom has been around for roughly 500 years.


Here's a link to the full article on it you might enjoy.

http://www .csmonitor.com /Science/ 2015/0730/ Blue-moon-on-Friday-Where-does-the-phrase-come-from?cmpid=FB

[ysilme]

Thank you! I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my answer, I had already googled it, or rather looked it up on Wikipedia. I'd be happy to look up your link, but it doesn't work.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I usually break links because sometimes lj seems to regard them as spam and blocks them. Just take out the spaces and it should work ok -- let me know if it doesn't.

[ysilme]

Ah, this is the reason for all the spaces in your links! No, the link doesn't work even without the spaces, I took them out already.
I never had problems with links in LJ, but I'm also always creating named links, perhaps that makes a difference.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

The ladies and I were commenting on how lovely the moon looked this morning as we were waiting for them to unlock the doors to the gym. We all remembered that it was a blue moon, too. Kudos to us!

- Erulisse (one L)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Oh, very cool indeed! :)