There was no full moon in February 1866
it was a harvest moon (full moon but orange in colour)
This is a fallacy. There was, in fact, a full moon in February, 1865. It occurred on 1865 February 10 at 16:27 UTC. The specific chart is the USNO 1865 Moon Phases document. This is not to say, however, that it is impossible for February to miss the full phase. The moon phases cycle every 29.5 days. Februrary, with 28 days (and 29 on a leap year), does miss a phase periodically.
Waning Gibbous. 88% full.
The popular definition of a "blue moon" is: "The second Full Moon in the samecalendar month".Although the origin of the term "blue moon" is nothing like that definition,we'll go with it, because that's what everybody nowadays thinks it is.The period of the moon's phases ... the time it takes to go through all of them ...is 29.531 days. (rounded)February has 28 days in three out of four years, and 29 days every fourth year.So February is never quite long enough to score two Full Moons.Even if it was a Leap Year and February 1 began at the exact instant of Full Moon,the next instant of Full Moon wouldn't occur until about 12hours 45minutes afterthe end of February 29th.
About every 28 years or so, the month of February will pass without a full moon. If this happens, there will be "blue moons" (two full moons in the same month) in January and in March. Since the lunar cycle takes 29.5 days and every other month is 30 or 31 days, there will always be at least one full moon in any month except February. And February is the only month that can NEVER have a "blue moon"!
The moon's synodic cycle is 29.53 days. As recently as 1999, there was no full moon during February. In fact 1866, 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961 did not have a full phase. so, yes, there can be a month without a full moon.
There was a full moon on the 3rd of February 2015.
March 18th
The Moon CAN be full in February, and in fact it usually is. Rarely, the Moon is full on January 31, which means it won't be full again until after February is over. But this only happens on average a little over three times a century.
It was a full moon.
It was, no doubt, a February. About every 30 years, the moon is full on January 2nd, and again on January 31. The next full moon happens to be on March 1! An entire MONTH (well, it was only February, which IS the shortest month) with no full moons!
The next full moon on a Feb 29 will be in 2048.
it was a harvest moon (full moon but orange in colour)
February is the only month capable of not having a full moon, although it almost always has one.The only thing that February can't possibly have that other months can is two full moons.Every other month except February must have one full moon, and is capable of having two of them.
February
February is the only month capable of not having a full moon, although it almost always has one.The only thing that February can't possibly have that other months can is two full moons.Every other month except February must have one full moon, and is capable of having two of them.
This is a fallacy. There was, in fact, a full moon in February, 1865. It occurred on 1865 February 10 at 16:27 UTC. The specific chart is the USNO 1865 Moon Phases document. This is not to say, however, that it is impossible for February to miss the full phase. The moon phases cycle every 29.5 days. Februrary, with 28 days (and 29 on a leap year), does miss a phase periodically.