BLUE MOON

BLUE MOON
I was looking forward to admiring the New Year‘s Eve “Blue Moon” tonight. But it was not to be! We are socked in - preparatory to tomorrow’s forecast of rain. Fortunately, I did get a great view of the Blue Moon -“lite”, last night, from my living room window.
I checked Wikipedia for the explanation of a “Blue Moon”. The write-up explained that most lunar years have twelve full moons which occur in approximate monthly cycles. But, with our Gregorian Calendar- year, there are about eleven additional days. These extra “solar days” accumulate so that 7 times, during this 19 year period (235 moon cycles), there is an extra “blue moon.” At the end of this described 19 year period, the “New Moon” appears on the same day as at the beginning of the lunar cycle. Following, is the “extra” full moon. The full moon originally got it’s name from it’s unusual bluish color. This rare event can be caused by pollution in the atmosphere. Today, the layman calls the second full-moon in a month, a “Blue Moon.”
RCL - 12/31/09.
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