#blue moons

Rare 'moonbows' light up night sky across US as blue supermoon rises — and you could still spot another one | Live Science

Extremely rare, vibrant "moonbows" were spotted in the night sky above the U.S. shortly before the rise of the blue supermoon on Monday (Aug. 19).

The moon will remain bright for the next few nights, meaning you still have a chance to see this ethereal phenomenon for yourself, if you're lucky. And we can tell you how.

Moonbows, also known as lunar rainbows, are created in the same way as their solar counterparts, with one obvious difference: they appear when moonlight, rather than sunlight, reflects and refracts off falling raindrops. But they are much rarer because they can only be seen around a full moon, when our planet's natural satellite is at its brightest in the night sky.

Even then, the moonlight is so faint compared to the sun that the luminous arches normally appear white — that's because the color-detecting receptors in our eyes don't work well enough in dim light to distinguish between the spectrum of colors produced — namely, "ROYGBIV," according to the U.K. Met Office.

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The concept of the blue moon in American culture has absolutely no more or less energy than any other full moon.

It's not actually special in any way. (I mean, all full moons are special but extra special - not one bit).

Occasionally, there are two full moons in a row in the same sign and that can pack a pretty big wallop. That's because we get the huge crest of lunar energy in the sign area of the astrological chart more than once in a season which is uncommon. But even then, it's just another full moon.

We get one about every 28 days so it can wait.

This isn't to say that you can't decide something is significant and make it so for yourself but there's no astrological backing there. It's the same old same old Sun-Moon opposition that comes around every month.

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last week the blue moon landed on my birthday for only the second time in my life. so much that happened between those two birthdays was an unwinding of everything that came before, and a lot of that hurt, it really hurt, but now i feel strangely untouchable. i may get one more blue moon birthday in nineteen years. i can't wait to see what this new era brings

Rare 'blue supermoon' — the biggest and brightest full moon of the year — rises Aug. 30 | Live Science

The biggest and brightest full moon of 2023 will rise on Aug. 30, and its strange name deserves an explanation. Called a "blue supermoon," it is the result of three lunar phenomena happening at once.

The "blue" supermoon's name has nothing to do with the moon's color. In fact, it will actually be orange. The blue supermoon gets the first part of its name for a different reason: It's the second full moon in August.

There are two types of blue moon. The August blue supermoon falls into the first category: two full moons occurring in the same month. That's occasionally inevitable; a new full moon rises every  29.5 days. Given that the Sturgeon Moon occurred on Aug. 1, 2023, the Aug. 30 full moon will be a blue moon. Blue moons of this type, called "calendar blue moons," occur roughly every two or three years, with the next one occurring on May 31, 2026, according to timeanddate.

The second type of blue moon, called a "seasonal blue moon," describes the third full moon of four during one astronomical season. This occurs when a calendar year has 13 full moons instead of the typical 12. (A lunar year — 12 orbits of Earth by the moon — takes 354 days, while Earth's solar year is 365 days.) The next seasonal blue moon, which also happens every two or three years, will occur on Aug. 19, 2024, according to timeanddate.

So, where does the second part of the name come from? A supermoon occurs when the full moon is close to its nearest point to Earth in its orbit. The moon's orbit of Earth is elliptical, so every month, it reaches a closest point (perigee) and farthest point (apogee). Moons that come within 90% of perigee in a given month qualify as supermoons, according to Fred Espenak, an astronomer and former eclipse calculator for NASA.

August's second full moon is the third and closest of four supermoons in 2023. At 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) from Earth, it will be the biggest and brightest supermoon of 2023, though it will be only 20 miles (33 kilometers) closer than Aug. 1's full moon, which was 222,023 miles (357,311 km) away.

The next full moon will be the Harvest Moon, on Sept. 29. In addition to being one of the best-known full moons of the year, it's the last supermoon in 2023.