Non-fandom moment

[icarus]

I've decided fandom stuff right now just makes the non-Nimbus crowd nuts. So. Did you know...

Moon Rise Facts
The New Moon always rises at sunrise.
And the first quarter at noon.
The Full Moon always rises at sunset.
And the last quarter at midnight.

More Moon Facts
We've all heard about the harvest moon.

Didyou know the moon has names for the othereleven months. Here they are.
January: Wolf Moon
February: Ice or Snow Moon
March: Storm or Worm Moon
April: Growing or Pink Moon
May: Hare or Flower Moon
June: Mead or Strawberry Moon
July: Hay or Buck Moon
August: Corn or Sturgeon Moon
September: Harvest Moon
October: Blood or Hunter's Moon
November: Snow or Beaver Moon
December: Cold Moon

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Here's another moon fact for you. You know how something rare is described as happening "once in a blue moon?"

The lunar cycle is a little shorter than a calendar month, so most months have a single full moon. But every so often, the lunar cycle and the calendar line up such that a single month has two full moons. The second full moon in a month is called -- you guessed it -- the Blue Moon.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Damn, you got to it first. ;)

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

Hence the name of the Anita Blake book where exactly that happens ;)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I learned this a few years ago. We actually had a 'blue moon' (was it in 2000?) and it was all over the airwaves.

Icarus