Heavenly Bodies
30 August 2023
Here it is 🙂
The ‘Blue Moon’ and full moon photo was from our garden in N.W. London.
Tonight sees the moon is closest in orbit to Earth, this phenomena is called a perigee.
The moon is rather special this evening because we are having a ‘Blue moon’. The moon has not actually turned blue, it was just one of the many names given to the many phases and condition of this lunar satellite.
Anyway, It is called a blue moon because as it is rare to have two full moons in one month. So rare that an idiom was coined from it – once in a blue moon.
Take time to look at the night sky tonight for the Blue as we are not likely to seen another ‘Super Blue’ moon until 2037.
Blue & Super Moon Aug 2023 (photo by Peter Morton)