A blue moon dog Refer to the third full moon in a season with four full moons or the second full moon of a calendar month Most years twelve full moons That Have Approximately monthly OCCUR In Addition to Those twelve full lunar cycles solar Each calendar year contains roughly eleven days more Than the lunar year of 12 lunations.
The extra days accumulate so Every two or three years 7 times in the 19 year Metonic cycle there is an extra full moon Lunisolar calendars to Have rules about when to insert Such an intercalary of embolismic leap month and What It Is Given name eg in the Hebrew calendar is the month Adar duplicated The term blue moon comes from folklore Different Traditions and conventions place the extra blue full moon at Different Times in the year.
The Farmers Almanac defined as an extra blue moon full moon That Occurred in a season one season WAS Normally three full moons had a season if four full moons then the third full Moon Was named a blue moon.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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