Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2015

Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own

I think this is possibly my favourite ever headline in the Independent -

"How to see the rare lunar event tonight"

The rare lunar event tonight is a blue moon, which is indeed a rare event, as we all know from the expression "once in a blue moon".  It is, however, simply a full moon.  It's called a blue moon if there has been more than one full moon in the same calendar month.

By some distance, then, the easiest way of seeing a blue moon is to look at the moon.