1958
The blue moon in 1985 occurred on July 31. This event marked the second full moon in a calendar month, which is the definition of a "blue moon." In that year, the first full moon took place on July 1.
Normally there are 3 full moons every quarter year, one per month. But there is about an 11 day difference between a 12 full moon, or new moon, lunar year and a 12 month Earth solar year. These days add up until it results in a month with 2 full moons. One at the beginning of the month and 1 at the end of the month. This can also result in a very rare 2 blue moon year. The calculation depends on where you live. So while N. America will have only 1 blue moon in Jan. 2010, Australia will see blue moons in both January and March. The reverse happened in 1999. A blue moon happens about every 2.5 years and a double blue moon occurs about 5 times in a century. The term "blue moon" means an extra full moon but we can have, and have had, blue colored moons. Generally this is a result of airborne particles like volcanic ash or smoke.
There are 2 uses of the term 'Blue Moon' - Because the lunar cycle is 28 days and the year has 365 days it works out that there are 13 new moons in a year. The year is divided into 4 seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, each of which would have 3 new moons (which are referred to as the Early Spring Moon, Mid-Spring Moon, Late Spring Moon and so on for the other 3 seasons) and wherever the extra 13th new moon falls it is given the name Blue Moon and this term is used to describe the 3rd new moon out of the 4 in the season. It would look exactly the same as the other 12. The other use of the term Blue Moon is when certain atmospheric conditions, usually smoke at high altitude, gives the Moon the appearance of a slightly blue tint.
December 2, and then, as a big, New Year's eve blue moon, on December 31.
The last time we had two blue moons in a single calendar year was in 2018. The first blue moon occurred on January 31, 2018, and the second on March 31, 2018. A blue moon is defined as the second full moon in a month with two full moons, which happens approximately every 2.5 to 3 years.
No, it varies. A blue moon is a second full moon in a calender month - December 2009 was the last blue moon.
Originally in 1961
There isn't anything special about a "blue moon"; it is just the second full moon in a calendar year, which happens about every other year. The Moon doesn't actually turn "blue". The only thing that causes the Moon to literally appear blue is fine volcanic ash high in the stratosphere.
1961
Old Blue Eyes released an album in 1964 which included the track Moon River. The song's most famous Hollywood debut, though, was in Breakfast at Tiffany's and was sung by Audrey Hepburn.
Blue moon is a board game which was published by Kosmos/Fantasy Flight games in the year 2004
2008
A year after you get married with the blue feather.
No, it is the name given to a second full moon occurring in the same calendar month. (This does not happen often)Some sources indicate that the original "blue moon" was the 13th calendar-year full moon, which occurs because the calendar year has 11 more days than the 12 lunar months. Every two or three years there is a 13th full moon.
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Normally there are 3 full moons every quarter year, one per month. But there is about an 11 day difference between a 12 full moon, or new moon, lunar year and a 12 month Earth solar year. These days add up until it results in a month with 2 full moons. One at the beginning of the month and 1 at the end of the month. This can also result in a very rare 2 blue moon year. The calculation depends on where you live. So while N. America will have only 1 blue moon in Jan. 2010, Australia will see blue moons in both January and March. The reverse happened in 1999. A blue moon happens about every 2.5 years and a double blue moon occurs about 5 times in a century. The term "blue moon" means an extra full moon but we can have, and have had, blue colored moons. Generally this is a result of airborne particles like volcanic ash or smoke.
There are 2 uses of the term 'Blue Moon' - Because the lunar cycle is 28 days and the year has 365 days it works out that there are 13 new moons in a year. The year is divided into 4 seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, each of which would have 3 new moons (which are referred to as the Early Spring Moon, Mid-Spring Moon, Late Spring Moon and so on for the other 3 seasons) and wherever the extra 13th new moon falls it is given the name Blue Moon and this term is used to describe the 3rd new moon out of the 4 in the season. It would look exactly the same as the other 12. The other use of the term Blue Moon is when certain atmospheric conditions, usually smoke at high altitude, gives the Moon the appearance of a slightly blue tint.