Did You Know

[leon]

Hi guys did you know that in 1865 it was the only time in recorded history that there wasn't a full Moon in the month of February

Just some useless information, you can see that I'm waiting for the night to get dark and the Moon to rack off.

Leon

[RB (Andrew)]

Which month?
Feb?

[leon]

Ahh Andrew, sorry, it was February, just edited the post..

Leon

[h0ughy (David)]

Leon great trivia - is it cloudy there....LOL

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

That was a pretty amazing bit of trivia, which got me thinking about the next time a February ocurs that is without a full moon, so I went and checked 3 or 4 "moon calculators" online.

Now here's the snag - they all tell me that there was a full moon in February 1865 - Feb 10th, approx 16:25 UTC.

http://www.iclasses.org/assets/math/...alculator.html

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...?year=1865&n=0

Can you tell me where you got your data from Leon because now I'm curious to delve a bit deeper and see which February's do and don't have full/new moons.

Steve

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

Ok, problem solved I suspect - it appears that February 1866 was the one without a full moon!

Full moon occured on Jan 30th at 20:28, & then March had 2 of them, Mar 1st 11:51 and Mar 31 4:31 ..... bad month for observing!

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February 1870 however had no New Moon - even worse!
March 1870 had only 1 New Moon, but April made up for it finally by having 2...
Apr 1 02:00 & Apr 30 18:38.


Cheers!

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

It appears February 1885 also had no full moon, with both January and March having 2 each - greedy buggers!

Same occurred again in 1915 - none in Feb, 2 each in Jan and March.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...?year=1885&n=0

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...?year=1915&n=0

[Moonboy (Gus)]

I didn't know that, but who would.

Gus

[leon]

Gee Steve you certainly did your homework, good stuff.

leon

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I was lucky Leon to do a google search and find those 2 very useful sites!
All I had to do was clink on the years one by one to see the data.

Gotta love the net!

[Ric]

Thanks for the links Steve, there was a lot of great link to other stuff as well.

I found out that I am 200 Mercury years old and only 30 Martian years old.

Cheers