What is a blue moon?

Answer 1

The original definition of a "blue moon" was the third full moon in a season that has four full moons, rather than the usual three; but in 1946, as a result of an error in Sky and Telescope magazine, it came to mean the second full moon in a calendar month that has two full moons. Blue Moons have no special significance in astronomy.

"Blue Moon" is also a song by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, written in 1934, that has become a standard ballad. The narrator of the song is relating a stroke of luck so unlikely that it must have taken place under a blue moon. It has been performed by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Marcels (who had a doo-wop version) and many others. Here are the lyrics:

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Answer 2

It is the second Full Moon to occur in a single month.

The average time between Full Moons is about 29.5 days, and the length of an average month is roughly 30.5 days. This makes it very unlikely that any given month will contain two Full Moons, though it does sometimes happen.

On average, there will be 41 months that have two Full Moons in every century, so you could say that once in a Blue Moon actually means once every two-and-a-half years.

Answer 3

According to the popular definition, it is the second Full Moon to occur in a single calendar month.

The average interval between Full Moons is about 29.5 days, whilst the length of an average month is roughly 30.5 days. This makes it very unlikely that any given month will contain two Full Moons, though it does sometimes happen.

On average, there will be 41 months that have two Full Moons in every century, so you could say that once in a Blue Moon actually means once every two-and-a-half years

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Answer 4

The term Blue Moon has at least four related meanings. One is a common metaphorical phrase for a rare event that really has little to do with the moon itself. Full moons are given names in folklore, and two definitions of blue moon are a name for a rare full moon that does not have a folk name. One modern blue moon definition is a result of a misinterpretation of the Maine Farmer's Almanac, where a second full moon occurs in a calendar month. The older definition of blue moon is for an extra full moon that occurs in a quarter of the year, which would normally have three full moons, but sometimes has four. Oddly, it is the third full moon in a season that has four which is counted as the "extra" full moon and named blue moon. According to certain folklore, it is said that when there is a blue moon, the moon has a face and talks to the items in its moonlight.

Answer 5

Two full moons in the same month. The second one is called a blue moon.

Answer 6

A blue moon is a moon that is sometimes tinted and is a 2nd full moon in a month

Answer 7

No, the moon isn't probable blue. A blue moon is while there are 2 finished moons interior an identical calendar month. this does not take place very in many circumstances, so while relating a minimum of a few thing that doesn't take place very in many circumstances, somebody will say that it happens "as quickly as in a blue moon".

Answer 8

Thats when you have a second full moon at the end of the month where you have already had a full moon that some month at the beginning.,only happens maybe once a year.

Answer 9

The second full moon in a month

Answer 10

sorry to give you such a humdrum unscientific answer but a blue moon is actually a second full moon within the same month. and incidentally, in north america, may 31 is a blue moon.