Once in a blue moon is only once every few years, but once in a super, blue, blood moon is just once every few decades. This rare alignment of three different lunar phenomena—a total lunar eclipse, a full moon at perigee, and a blue moon—will be visible in the night and early morning skies for much of the world on Wednesday, January 31.
This should be spectacular.
The Blue Moon doesn’t really contribute anything to the appearance, it’s just a uncommon coincidence of the calendar.
Sure didn’t stop my mother from using it as hyperbole while she was alive.
Honestly, our moon is just spectacular, period. As far as I know it’s still not known with any certainty as to how our small planet could have acquired such an enormous satellite, and both together should probably be considered a double planet. Stare at it on any dark night and you’re looking directly with your eyes at another world so close you can see it, in sharp detail, hanging in the sky, a tangible, visible other world, right there in front of you.
The remarkableness of that is usually lost on us, but we might not be here without it. No other planet we know of has tides anywhere near as strong as ours, which might have been critical to life being able to move from ocean to land.
Overcast. I saw nothing. ?