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This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller)

Boing Boing·Rob Beschizza·3 days ago
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marcodi_carlo / Shutterstock This weekend's Blue Moon , the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon , because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit. The best moment to catch it, writes EarthSky, is just before 4 a.m. Sunday morning in Central Daylight Time. It won't be so small you'll have trouble finding it, assuming the weather cooperates. Look southeast and you'll find it appearing next to Antares in the constellation Scorpius , not far over the horizon. Note that the moon will not appear blue, which only occurs when faintly obscured by light-scattering dust. Blue- colored moons in images – such as the images on this page – are often made using special blue camera filters or in a post-processing program such as PhotoShop. Usually, but not always. … In modern times, most of us know that Blue Moons emerged from folklore . We call a full moon a Blue Moon when it's the 2nd full moon of a single calendar month.…

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