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To add to a previous post up above - I have previously heard of the 2nd New Moon in a single calendar month being called a "dark moon" instead of ebony, but I don't know the specific geographic origin of that one.
As an aside I saw a truly Blue Moon once, many years ago, as a child - and I mean the moon was BLUE ... it would have been around the early to mid 70's I believe, moon was high in the sky and it was close to dusk, and the moon was a definite blue colour, pale powder blue, not grey, not white.
I have since read that this can happen with specific conditions of high atmosperic dust, etc. Even at that age I knew it was an unusual event and I took a photo of it with my 35mm "toy" camera - which sadly was loaded with B&W film!! Actually, that was my first ever astrophotograph, come to think of it!
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