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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 23:10
Branwen wrote:
Tiompan is right June. I replied to you about it being a red and blue moon on that thread. Eclipse makes the moon turn red every time. Visually. Blue moon has come to mean an extra moon in a month only since 1946. It used to be a belewe moon in 1500's when it was first recorded as a saying, meaning a betrayer moon which was when an extramoon before lent threw the date off. A visibly blue moon happens because of atmospheric dust and gives rise to the once in a blue moon phrase because it is extremely rare. There was dust and a visibly blue moon, as well as an eclipse, which turns it red for the duration of the eclipse, in a month where it just happened to be an extra full moon and called a blue moon by modern standards.


Doh! You mean he wasn't taking the micky ... I quite liked the idea that he may have been.

Thanks Branwen, as ever I always learn something from your posts. I'm a simple soul, I'll settle for the light of the silvery moon any old time.

atb
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