still brrr
Wed Jan 31 04:00:46 EST 2018
There's the blue-blood-supermoon full lunar eclipse this morning. I'm not going to bother getting up for it. This far east, most of the eclipse happens after the moon sets. We have lots of trees blocking our view west, so we won't even see that. And it's really cold: 21°F/-6.1°C, feels like 14°F/-10.0°C.
As for the blue-moon part - that's just a coincidence of the calendar, not something astronomically significant. I think it's much more noteworthy that we have 2 blue moons this year - that happens only when short little February gets no full moon at all, so January and March can both have two. February can never have a blue moon.
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There's the blue-blood-supermoon full lunar eclipse this morning. I'm not going to bother getting up for it. This far east, most of the eclipse happens after the moon sets. We have lots of trees blocking our view west, so we won't even see that. And it's really cold: 21°F/-6.1°C, feels like 14°F/-10.0°C.
As for the blue-moon part - that's just a coincidence of the calendar, not something astronomically significant. I think it's much more noteworthy that we have 2 blue moons this year - that happens only when short little February gets no full moon at all, so January and March can both have two. February can never have a blue moon.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/955521.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]