Whos gonna watch?

[Jihadjoe]

honestly idk its a big thing in the US im sure my sci teachers gonna be like " Who watched theblue moon 80 Extra credit point for you " >_>

I doubt it. "Blue moon" is more of a folklore term than anything else. It's just used to describe the third full moon in any season that has three. Traditionally, each full moon of the year had a name. This was for calendar purposes, farming and so on... So folks could keep track of when to do what.

Most years have twelve full moons that happen roughly once a month. However, each solar year (which we measure our standard calendar by... Fairly badly, but we do.) has 11 extra days beyond the 12 lunar cycles in a lunar year.

As a result, every so often you end up with a year that has 13 full moons, meaning four will fall within a single season.

The reason the third is called a blue moon, is so that the names of the other full moons remain in sync with the season beginning and end, so that the people to whom it mattered could easily keep track.

It meaning "the second full moon in a month" is pretty much wrong.


That said, it's a fairly unremarkable event, and I doubt you'll get any extra credit for "watching" a bog standard full moon. It would be useful if you happen to operate on a lunar farming calendar, and you're trying to keep yourself up to date with a solar year as well... And I doubt anyone would be doing that.

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