Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Blue Moon - Full Moon


Hi everyone, I was just over visiting JudyS's blog 'Stitch Along with Me'.  Judy does amazing knitting and shares such lovely photos of her surrounding area.  Today she had a photo of the recent Blue Moon/Full Moon which reminded me that my hubby was out taking photos of it too.  Thought I would share one.

Hubby was saying it wasn't very blue and as you can see not a bit of blue to be found.  So of course I googled to find out why.  Came across this site - Earth Sky.  Here is a little of what they said, visit the site for two more explanations.

August 2012 is a month with two full moons. And, by popular acclaim, that means it’s a Blue Moon month – but Blue in name only. That’s because a Blue Moon is sometimes defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. The first full moon was August 1. The second full moon is today – August 31, 2012. The second full moon of August 2012 is the Blue Moon.

8 comments:

  1. Thank you for the History lesson Merry......lol its a lovely story, l enjoy calling by and l will click on the image to see more..........thank you for sharing this xx

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  2. Awesome pic! Thanks for the lesson too...now I won't seem so dumb with the students if they bring this up! :)

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  3. We hoped to see the blue Moon here Merry, but as usual we had rain and lots of clouds, but I imagine it was quite awesome.

    B x

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  4. Me again Merry, needless to say I only saw that last bit and I posted my first comment, so I guess the media misled us all yet again.

    B x

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  5. Thanks for sharing this interesting fact...and moon pic is beautiful...now i get the saying ...once in a blue moon..lol!!!

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  6. Thanks for sharing Merry, I have to say that the moon has looked fabulous recently,across the fields from my house is an old Windmill, huge thing, and as the moon rose at the side of it , well it looked stunning, wish I'd taken a pic now....lol...xx

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  7. awesome Photograph, I always struggle photographing the moon, I'm sure there is a knack to it!

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  8. Great photo, Merry, and interesting info! We've been interested in how quickly the full moon seems to be waning, but maybe we've not paid attention before.

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