Feb. 3, 2011
The full moon known as the snow moon typically occurs in February. It is named the snow moon because it typically coincides with the snowiest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
only at Full Moon
wave tide
The moon goes through the phases every 28 days. If a full moon occurs twice during a month, the second full moon is a blue moon...pretty rare.
Full moon, or within one day of the full.
A lunar eclipse
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.
The phase of the Moon that occurs when it is three-quarters full just before the full Moon is called the Gibbous Moon, specifically the Waxing Gibbous phase. During this phase, more than half of the Moon's surface is illuminated, and it is approaching full illumination. The Waxing Gibbous phase occurs between the First Quarter and the Full Moon.
A Waxing Gibbous occurs when the moon is illuminated between a First Quarter and a Full Moon, during the second half of the moon's cycle. It appears as a larger part of the moon illuminated, but not yet full.
A solar eclipse is possible only at the time of New Moon.It never occurs during Full Moon.
The only moon phase that occurs during a lunar eclipse, is a Full Moon.
There was no full moon in February 1866