Everything We Know About Blue Moon Right Now.

Everything We Know About Blue Moon Right Now.

-Crazy Facts Of Cosmology. 

Reason:  Why Moon Appears Blue? 

  

 When volcanoes erupt, the dust particles can cause the Moon to appear blue. 

There are two definitions of Blue Moon in astronomy;

 Blue Moon means that something is very rare, but how rare depend on your definition.. 

1) if the moon actually looks blue, it's caused by a rare type of dust present in the atmosphere. 

2) Astronomy, a Blue Moon is a Full Moon, which doesn't quite set in with the months in English calendar.

This Moon occur about every 2. 7 years.
By the way, Blue Moons are not typically blue in color, that happens only, well, once in a Blue Moon, but there is the possibility for a clue of blue in any full Moon.

As it did in 1883 after the volcano Krakatoa erupted.Dust in the air acted as a filter, causing sunsets and the moon converted into green and blue in the whole world.



Other events such as forest fires and dust storms can cause the moon to convert blue.

On the page for August 1937, the Main Farmer's Almanac as far back as the mid -1800s. The Almanac explained that the "usually comes full 12 times in a year, three times for each season. When there are 13 full moons during a year. Occasionally, however, there will come that year. And that extra full moon also meant that one of the four seasons would contain four full moons instead of the usual three.

The almanac followed certain rules for what to call each moon. As the first full moon of springs was called the Egg Moon or Easter Moon, or Paschal Moon and had to fall within the week before Easter. There was also the Moon before Yule and the Moon after Yule.

The third moon was dubbed a blue moon at that time when a particular season had four moons. So that the remaining full moons could occur at the at the proper times relative to the solstices and equinoxes.