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Rare ‘Super Blue Moon’ Out Tonight
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:53 pm
Smithsonian
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And the next supermoon that coincides with a “seasonal blue moon,” like the one today, will be on August 20, 2032.
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Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:54 pm to WestSideTiger
I had a Blue Moon beer tonight. Am I connected with the moon somehow?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:58 pm to WestSideTiger
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“I personally can’t tell the difference between a supermoon and a regular moon,” Fred Espenak, a scientist emeritus for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, tells NPR’s Morning Edition. “And I’ve been looking at the moon all my life.”
This guy summed it up pretty well.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:58 pm to WestSideTiger
It's also called a sturgeon moon 
This is from last night...it's cloudy here tonight...
This is from last night...it's cloudy here tonight...
Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:59 pm to WestSideTiger
The moon is made of cheese
Posted on 8/19/24 at 9:08 pm to WestSideTiger
Posted on 8/19/24 at 9:55 pm to WestSideTiger
I am no expert but I did take an Astronomy 101 class in college and thought a blue moon was the second full moon in a month.
With this being the 19th it is pretty close to impossible for this to be the second full moon of August since the cycle is 28 days.
Am I misremembering something or did climate change frick up the blue moon cycle too?
With this being the 19th it is pretty close to impossible for this to be the second full moon of August since the cycle is 28 days.
Am I misremembering something or did climate change frick up the blue moon cycle too?
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:12 pm to WestSideTiger
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 10:13 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:44 pm to WestSideTiger
It absolutely is a magnificent moon tonight.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:48 pm to WestSideTiger
Looked like an orange flashlight through the trees around 8:30 or 9.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:52 pm to TarheelPete
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With this being the 19th it is pretty close to impossible for this to be the second full moon of August since the cycle is 28 days.
Am I misremembering something or did climate change frick up the blue moon cycle too?
From the article:
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Due to some confusion decades ago, the term “blue moon” has come to refer to two different events. In one usage of the phrase, a blue moon refers to the second full moon in a calendar month. These uncommon moons occur because the length of our months doesn’t exactly align with the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle. The most recent “monthly blue moon” was last year in August. The next one will happen in late May 2026.
But the older and more traditional definition of blue moon refers to the third out of four full moons in a season. Typically, a single season would have only three full moons—but summer 2024 has four of them. Astronomically, the equinoxes and solstices mark the transitions between seasons, rather than the starts and ends of our calendar months—so the full moon that will occur on September 17 this year will still count as a summer moon, making today’s full moon the third of the season. The next “seasonal blue moon” will be in May 2027.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 11:53 pm to pussywillows
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“Heck, I’d have seconds “
Posted on 8/19/24 at 11:56 pm to WestSideTiger
Missed it. God willing I’ll be around for the next one.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 12:08 am to tigersownall
Look outside the next couple nights. It's a multi-day thing.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 7:29 am to WestSideTiger
That moon did look big as hell on my way to work this morning. Didn't realize it was anything special.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 7:49 am to WestSideTiger
The moon ain't real. NASA just turned up the brightness.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 8:01 am to WestSideTiger
By far the best rendition of "Blue Moon", when Bruce Willis had hair.
Moonlighting
Moonlighting
Posted on 8/20/24 at 9:42 am to WestSideTiger
caught it yesterday at Pensacola Beach.
Posted on 8/20/24 at 9:42 am to WestSideTiger
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Blue Moon
RIP Toby.
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