the next confirmed blue moon will be on august 21 2012 . it has not let been confirmed that there will a blue moon in may 2012
Blue Moon meaning 2nd full moon in a month will be December 2 and 31 2009.The farmer almanac has a different definition and I am not sure of the dates they say.A "blue moon" occurs every time the moon appears full twice in the same month.
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.
The last one was December 31st 1990. The next one is December 31st, 2009.
The new Moon occurs every month when the moon sets just after sunset. From one new moon to the next, there is a time of about 29 1/2 days.
At the time of answering this question (May 6th, 2013), the next new moon will be on May 10th, 2013.
Blue Moon meaning 2nd full moon in a month will be December 2 and 31 2009.The farmer almanac has a different definition and I am not sure of the dates they say.A "blue moon" occurs every time the moon appears full twice in the same month.
The date of the next blue moon (according to the modern definition) is August 31, 2012.
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Blue Moons aren't like solar eclipses - they don't just happen to a certain part of the Earth. A blue moon is just the name for the event where a full moon happens twice in the same month; The second full moon in that month is called a "blue moon". You can see the moon from anywhere on the Earth in a 24 hour period, so yes, the next blue moon will happen "over" the US.
Here is more information than you're asking for:There are two interpretations of "blue moon" going around.The original interpretation of the phrase was: the third full moon in a season that has four full moonsin it. According to this definition, the next blue moon will occur on November 21, 2010.The second interpretation of the phrase ... published as a mistake in 1946 and widely adopted ... is: the secondfull moon in one calendar month. According to this definition, the next one will occur in August, 2012.Another, perhaps more interesting, piece of trivia: The next occurrence of a "blue moon" on New Year's Eve,as happened at the end of 2009, will be on 12/31 in 2028, and will be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse.
Answer #1:The Next blue moon is April 14th 11:00pm====================================Answer #2:The next lunar eclipse has been scheduled for April 14th, 2014.-- According to the most popular definition of 'Blue Moon' ... the second Full Moon inthe same calendar month ... there are none in 2014.-- Since the interval between consecutive Full Moons is about 29.5 days, the firstone must be on the 1st or 2nd of the month in order to squeeze another one intothe same month.-- In 2014, all of the Full Moons are between the 6th and the 16th of the month.
A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (on average about every 2.7154 years) there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is called a "blue moon."
Generally only once, but since the cycle of moon phases takes 28 days while some months are 31 days, it will occasionally happen that if the first quarter moon happens on the 1st or 2nd of the month, the next 1st quarter will occur within that same month.
It didn't, we get one late next year, they don't happen every year
The next Blue Moon, according to folklore, will be August 31, 2012.
The Next blue moon will be on August 31st 2012 at 13:56 (Gmt). That's why it's "once in a blue moon" See related link for a blue moon calculator.
The term "blue moon" comes from folklore. Different traditions and conventions place the extra "blue" full moon at different times in the year .In calculating the dates for Lent and Easter the Clergy identify the Lent Moon. It is thought that historically when the moons timing was too early, they named an earlier moon as a "betrayer moon" (belewe moon), thus the Lent moon came at its expected time.Folklore gave each moon a name according to its time of year. A moon that came too early had no folk name, and was called a blue moon, retaining the correct seasonal timings for future moons .The Farmers Almanac defined blue moon as an extra full moon that occurred in a season; one season was normally three full moons. If a season had four full moons, then the third full moon was named a blue moon.Recent popular usage defined a blue moon as the second full moon in a calendar month, stemming from an interpretation error made in 1946 that was discovered in 1999. For example, December 31, 2009 was a blue moon according to this usage.A "blue moon" is also used colloquially to mean "a rare event", reflected in the phrase "once in a blue moon". The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event. The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, as has happened after forest fires in Sweden and Canada in 1950 and 1951