December 31, 2009
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A very RARE kind of Blue Moon Tonight!
From “skyweather”….“Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years).
Blue Moons on New Year’s Eve are rarer still (once every 19
years). How rare is a lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on New
Year’s Eve?A search of NASA’s Five
Millennium Catalogue of Lunar Eclipses provides an approximate
answer. In the next 1000 years, Blue Moons on New Year’s Eve
will be eclipsed only 11 times (once every 91 years). A year
of special note is 2848 when there will be two lunar
eclipses in December–on Dec. 1st and Dec. 31st. Such a double-Blue
Moon-lunar eclipse ending on New Year’s Eve appears to be
a millennium-level event. That’s rare.”Also… check out my favorite eclipse website for an illustration of the moon and much more!!
