Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Blue Moon still on schedule for a special Yolo County New Year's Eve

From "Blue Moon to Occur New Year's Eve" by Joe Rao at Space.com:

New Year's Eve brings us the second of two full moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full moon is called the "blue moon."

The term has a very interesting history, riddled with misconceptions and errors. More on that lower down. First, what will (and won't) happen:

The full moon that night will likely look no different than any other full moon (other than the fact that a partial eclipse will occur across most of Europe, Africa, and Asia).

Read the rest at Space.com.

1 comments:

Chrystal K. said...

That's exciting. I'll be sure to look up at the sky tomorrow night.