Blue moon: one small mistake, giant folklore for the sky
If you call old friends on your smart phone only once in a blue moon, start dialing: Today is your day. For an event that happens about once every 2.7 years, enjoy the full moon - because it's a Blue Moon… on a Friday… just in time for happy hour ...www.washingtonpost.com
Blue moon seen around the globe
Blue moon seen around the globe. Although the moon wasn't actually colored blue, the rare event will not happen again until July 2015.www.washingtonpost.com
Blue Moon for Blue Dodgers
This is allegedly the first known utterance of the "blue moon" in a 1528 poem "Rede Me and Be Not Wroth" according to various sources on the interweb.laist.com
Hiking-Once in a Blue Moon
A blue moon it isn't really blue but is the color of any other moon. It is a rare occurrence; the fact that it is a full moon that appears for the second time in a single month is what makes it so unusual.www.uticaod.com
Blue moon portends victory for Big Blue; Wa-Hi hangs on for 21-18 win
WALLA WALLA - It took a blue moon and a 21-0 first-half lead, but Big Blue finally got its first win in more than a year Friday night as it held on to beat a rugged Moses Lake squad that rallied for 18-straight second-half points at Borleske Stadium ...union-bulletin.com
Last 'blue moon' until 2015 lights up night sky tonight
A blue moon will grace the night sky tonight (Aug. 31), giving skywatchers their last chance to observe this celestial phenomenon for nearly three years.www.foxnews.com
Blue moon on Friday: What it means and how to see it online
Tonight as you head home from work, take a moment to look up in the sky and contemplate the blue moon -- it's the last time you'll get to see one until July 2015.www.latimes.com
Blue moon: Two chances to see this rare event
The first opportunity will be Friday morning - yes, the morning - as the blue moon is setting for the day, said Anthony Cook, astronomical observer at Griffith Observatory.www.csmonitor.com
Blue Moon Over Baristaville
Email this entry Tweet. Did you catch the Blue Moon last night? This is what she looked like over Eagle Rock at 8 pm. (Photo: Cary Africk).www.baristanet.com
"Blue Moon
Once in a blue moon, we get a night like tonight. If the weather is clear, you will get to see the second full moon of the month -- or perhaps the fourth full moon of a three-month season -- or maybe an early "betrayer moon" (belewe in Old English ...abcnews.go.com
Folks Flock to See Monarch Trail, Blue Moon
So, you'd have to call it a capacity crowd Friday night for the Friends of the Monarch Trail's Blue Moon Party. Kicking off at 5:30 p.m.wauwatosa.patch.com
'Blue moon' on same day as Neil Armstrong service
A blue moon occurs when there's a second full moon in one calendar month. It won't happen again until July 2015. The full moon cycle is 29.5 days so a blue moon is uncommon and has come to mean something rare. The moon actually won't be colored blue ...www.businessweek.com
Astro Bob column: Blue moon a case of misinformation
It was actually a mistake by an amateur astronomer in Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 that led to our current definition of "blue moon" as the unusual second full moon in a month. The term "blue moon" goes back hundreds of years, but it had a ...articles.orlandosentinel.com
Once in a blue moon...
By definition the term "Blue Moon" simply means the second of two full moons to occur in one calendar month. The next time we will see a Blue Moon is July 31, 2015. An even rarer phenomenon in the moon cycles would be two blue moons occurring in the ...www.examiner.com
Rare 'blue moon' to light up Bay Area skies Friday night
A blue moon will light up the night sky Friday night. The lunar occurrence, which has nothing to do with the coloring of the moon, means there are two full moons in the same calendar month, according to astronomy instructor Jonathan Braidman from the ...www.mercurynews.com
COLUMN: Questions about 'blue moons'
A. A story in Sky & Telescope magazine says "widespread adoption" of the modern-day definition of a "blue moon" - that it's the rare second full moon that edges into a calendar month - came in 1980 when it was the subject of a popular radio show.poststar.com
Detroit Jazz Festival 2012: Sonny Rollins jumps the blue moon on opening night
Less than a week before his 82nd birthday, Sonny Rolllins led his sextet through a boiling hour and a half long set under a rising blue moon and in the shadow of the monolithic Renaissance Center. The band opened with an ecstatic version of the Rollins ...www.mlive.com
Wince in a 'blue moon'
The moon won't be blue tonight. Or sad. Even if you sing the Rodgers & Hart song, "Blue Moon." It's just another full moon, due to rise at 7:17 in Philadelphia, except for a statistical quirk: August already had one, on the 2d.www.philly.com
Blue moon confusion
Most people define the Blue moon is the second full moon to occur in one month and typically happens once every year, however, news and websites are declaring we won't see another one until 2015.www.examiner.com
Blue moon tonight: The next one is in 3 years
"Once in a blue moon," is a saying that means a rare occurrence and after tonight's blue moon you won't see one again until 2015.www.examiner.com
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