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For the first time in almost 20 years, a bright "blue Moon" will grace New Year's Eve celebrations world wide.
If the skies are clear, revellers looking up at midnight will get an eyeful of the second full moon of the month. This has been commonly called a blue moon. For the history books, the last time this occurred was in 1990;
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and it won't happen again until 2028. Now, to answer some of the questions about the moon actually being blue. It is true, the moon that we will see tonight, will not be so called 'blue'.
It has been labelled a blue moon due to the rarity of actually seeing two full moon in a month and is linked to the saying 'once in a blue moon'.
Scientifically speaking there is nothing special linking this to anything radical. But, it does give some insight into history and makes us think of how our calendar system has derived from motions of objects in the sky.
Even if the 2009 New Year's Eve blue moon has astronomers scoffing, nighttime partygoers may still get moonstruck.
Rising in the east at sunset, the New Year's Eve full moon will reach its highest point at midnight, noted Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium and host of PBS television's long-running show Star Gazer.
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"Full moons around winter solstice rise their highest for the entire year," Horkheimer added.
"Even if you are downtown in a large city, if it is clear at the stroke of midnight the moon will be very visible if you look up."
In any location, the high, silvery orb will seem like a floodlight cast on the landscape, added Horkheimer, who is organizing a national moon-howling contest around this year's blue moon.
"This is especially true where the ground is covered with a blanket of snow. There is nothing quite so spectacular as a snow-covered scene under a December full moon at midnight."
Well, we at VeganEra like to believe that this will issue in a new era in our world. An era where killing will stop, and the Human will turn to peace and love over money and greed.
Be Love - Be Peace - BE VEGAN; Save our Home. |
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