Cool, you know I've never paid attention to 2 full moons per month. I love when there are full moons. I always wait for crazy things to happen on those nights.

AnckSuNamun said:

my body has been in total sync with the moons this month
i didn't notice till you mentioned the first full moon earlier in the month.

emm said:

but why is it called "blue" ?

XxAxX said:

Look that up and report back to us ASAP

This is probably a really stupid question. But is a full moon all over the world? It was a full moon in Britain last night, I had trouble sleeping

Mach said:

..I read somewhere that they call it a blue moon, cause it happening once every so often?? is that what you found Mach?

Both my wall calendars are conflicting the 2 moons in May, and shows 2 moons in June.

June 1st and June 30th. Why doesn't it show for May 31st? I am confussed.

This guys having a pretty busy month!

LittleSmedley said:

anyone?...

LittleSmedley said:

all I can offer you is a , I didn't sleep well either, but I don't think it was due to the moon..I rarely sleep good..it's more like I get a good nights sleep once in a blue moon

LittleSmedley said:

Occasionally whether a moon is called blue depends on the time zone. Any full moon occurs simultaneously everywhere, but at that moment clocks and calendars are not the same.

For example, when it is early evening on August 31 in Europe, it is already early morning September 1 in New Zealand. Hence, residents of London seeing a full moon when their clocks and calendar say it is August 31 would call what they see a calendar blue moon. People seeing the same full moon from Auckland would note by their clocks and calendar that it is the early morning of September 1, and they would not term it a blue moon. But they would probably have a calendar blue moon at the end of September, or perhaps October.

Because this is confusing, astronomers worldwide and the calendar makers who rely on them typically choose the time zone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom, known as Greenwich Mean Time, or the nearly identical UTC time zone. As a practical matter, because the moon seems to the casual viewer to be full for almost three days, the use of a foreign time zone for calendar markings for full moons makes little difference.

hisfan4ever said:

Most people are familiar with the term "Once in a blue moon", meaning "very infrequently". Variations on this phrase have been in use for some 400 years, and certainly a visibly blue moon is a rare event. They can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, such as happened after forest fires in Sweden in 1950 and Canada in 1951 and, notably, after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 which caused blue moons for nearly two years.

However, the best known physical definition is the one which states that the second full moon in a month is called a blue moon. This happens about seven times every 19 years, though the dates vary around the world because, even though a full moon occurs at the same moment for the whole planet, there are many variations on local time.

cool!

thanks!

So there's a Blue Moon tonight and I may actually be sitting on Nicollet Mall outside waiting overnight for damn Prince tickets.

Let's hope this bodes well for me.

CarrieMpls said:

Blue Moon
I know just what you are there for
I heard you saying a prayer for
Tickets to see Prince at the Macy's store


Best of luck tonight, Carrie.

a blue moon is the fourth full moon in a season, not the second full moon in a month, as commonly thought.

http://skytonight.com/obs...04131.html

edit: it seems its the third full moon in a four moon season.
[Edited 5/31/07 7:43am]

CarrieMpls said:

you are hardcore.

CarrieMpls said:

Stax said:

I can't believe I'm doing it. But we've got out of towners counting on us now. And it's looking like it's gonna be kinda crazy.

Here's hoping it doesn't rain!

CarrieMpls said:

Sounds like fun! Is it warm weather now?

Stax said:

We've been ranging from the 60's to the 80's, so yeah, it's been nice.

CarrieMpls said:

Any plans to catch the St Paul gig, Carrie? I saw him last year in London, had a great time

LittleSmedley said:

Will likely miss it as I may already be waiting in a line at that point.

No, I'm not kidding.

CarrieMpls said:

good, no frozen bits.

CarrieMpls said:

how fun! i haven't done the overnight for Prince since Lovesexy!

Dansa says Carrie & endo were just shown on MPLS tv waiting in line for tix!