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Best time to see the rare 'blue moon' this August 21-23

2021-08-22T02:06:45.334Z


When will the rare 'blue moon' be seen this August 21-23. This moon is so rare that it will not be visible again until 2024.


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This weekend is your next chance to see the rare blue full moon before it becomes "just a memory" again until 2024.

A blue moon is the third full moon in a season that contains four full moons, instead of the usual three, according to Sky & Telescope magazine.

The phenomenon has been a cultural muse for music, art and language, such as the songs "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" and "Blue Moon", recorded by various artists, including Elvis Presley, and the saying "a time on a blue moon ", which describes a rare event.

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NASA reported the first recorded use of "blue moon" to occur in 1528, while Sky & Telescope has traced its origin back to the Maine Farmers' Almanac published in the 1930s.

"The introduction of the 'Blue' Moon meant that the traditional names for the full Moon, such as Wolf Moon and Harvest Moon, stayed (in sync) with its season," said Diana Hannikainen, observation editor for Sky & Telescope, in a Press release.

This was before the late amateur astronomer and Sky & Telescope contributor Hugh Pruett misunderstood the definition in 1946, eventually helping to circulate the popular definition of a blue moon: the last full moon in a month, the last of which occurred on Halloween 2020, according to Sky & Telescope.

An airplane passes in front of a Sturgeon moon (blue moon) after takeoff from Minneapolis-St.

Paul on August 3, 2020.

People in the Americas will be able to see a nearly full moon Saturday night, before the true blue moon reaches its highest point in the sky during early Sunday morning at 1:04 a.m. Eastern time, according to NASA. .

The moon will reach full illumination at 8:02 am ET on Sunday and will appear to be nearly full after dark that day.

However, the full blue moon, which occurs about once every 2.7 years on average, will not actually look blue - that happens less frequently, when "volcanic eruptions or wildfires send a lot of smoke and fine dust into the sky. the atmosphere, "according to Sky & Telescope.

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This moon has had many different names. The Maine Farmers' Almanac first published Native American terms for full moons in the 1930s, according to NASA - including the "Sturgeon Moon" of the Algonquin tribes, named after large fish that are they captured most easily in the Great Lakes and other bodies of water during this time, and the "Green Corn Moon."

However, the name of the August full moon differs between cultures.

The Anishnaabe people call it the "berry moon", while the Cherokee people call it the "dry moon".

For the Comanche people, the full moon in August is the "summer moon."

The Creek people know her as the "great harvest" moon.

And the Hopi people call it the "moon of joy."

See all the Native American names for this full moon on the Western Washington University Planetarium website.

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Source: cnnespanol

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