Lunartic ponderence…

[Paddy de Klerk]

Be good to "know" what the colour of the moon should be ,as both January & March 2014 have 2 New Moons each.!

[Kunama]

I think its going to be just plain old grey till the 31st of July 2015 when the next 'blue' moon is due.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Going by recent experience, the colour doesn't matter. Clouds win all the time.

[LewisM]

I thought after a beautiful clear cloudless day I'd have a chance. Now it's completely sky covered in that god awful grey fluffy crud.

I am going to invent a high intensity laser to evaporate holes through clouds. Birds and aeroplanes beware

[LewisM]

Edit: it's a BIG thundery on it's way. Lightning shots tonight

[Occulta (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Paddy de Klerk

Be good to "know" what the colour of the moon should be ,as both January & March 2014 have 2 New Moons each.!

No colour they are New!

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Originally Posted by Paddy de Klerk

Be good to "know" what the colour of the moon should be ,as both January & March 2014 have 2 New Moons each.!

The 2nd new moon in a calendar month is called the "blue moon" but that has nothing to do with it's actual colour.

It is also known as a "black moon"...although I cannot remember why this is called so.

[Astro_Bot]

Ahem, pardon me, but wouldn't that be the "2nd full moon"?

[PEDANTIC MODE]

It seems the modern definition of a Blue Moon is a convenience, and the original definition was somewhat different: What's a Blue Moon?

The name itself wasn't originally "blue" but "belewe", from the Old English, which had a double meaning as the colour and as "betrayer" (More here):

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In calculating the dates for Lent and Easter, Catholic clergy identified a Lenten moon. Historically, when the moons arrived too early, they called the early moon a betrayer (belewe) moon, so the Lenten moon came at its expected time.

[/PEDANTIC MODE]


I now feel satisfied that I qualify as a "lunartic".

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Originally Posted by Astro_Bot

Ahem, pardon me, but wouldn't that be the "2nd full moon"? .

Ahhh yes quite so I am corrected and suitably spanked!