If the occurence of two full moons in a calendar month is called A Blue Moon, then what is the case with two new moons?
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Black moon.\nGo here......\nhttp://www.obliquity.com/astro/blue-new.html\nSearch engines are so cool!
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Lunar eclipses occur at full moon, when the moon passes into the earth's shadow.  This does not occur at every full moon because the moon's orbit is inclined 5 degrees to the orbit of the earth around the sun, so the alignment must have the moon crossing through the earth's orbital plane at full moon.\n\nWhat we see depends on what part of the earth's shadow the moon passes into.  The shadow consists of two areas, the umbra and the penumbra.  The penumbra is a much lighter shadow, and lunar eclipses that occur when the moon only passes into it are difficult to see.  The portion of the moon that dims does so only a little.  When the moon passes into the umbra, the effect is more easily visible.  If the moon only goes part way into the umbra, the area in that portion of the shadow will become noticeably darker.  If the moon passes entirely into the umbra, that is a total lunar eclipse.  The moon will get much darker and will turn a rust color.  This reddish color is due to light that gets through the earth's atmosphere and back to the moon.  If you think about the color  of sunset and sunrise, it is primarily red.  It is this red light around the rim of the earth (as you would see the unlit side of the earth from the moon during a full moon) that illuminates the moon during a total lunar eclipse and makes it appear dark red.
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There was a full moon out June ll.. what you saw was a reflection (either in water, or a mirror image) of the full moon. Are you into astrology? The war in the sky sounds like a zodiac of sorts. What was involved in the war? (What is going on around you? any turbulence? it's merely a reflection of this..) the reflection thing.. get it? mirror/water.. lol. it's easy! lol
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"The moon does not circle the Earth once a day. The Earth circles the sun once a day. The Moon orbits the Earth about twice every 24 hours. That's why we have tides (high and low)."\n\nSAY WHAT?  Not even close.  There are junior high science teachers weeping over this "answer".\n\nThe earth rotates once a day on its axis.  That is the definition of a day - the time it takes for a planetary body to rotate once on its axis. \nThe earth circles the sun once a year - actually 365.24 days (which is why we have leap years).  That is the definition of a year - the time it takes for a planet to orbit the sun.  As you can tell, planetary years are longer or shorter depending on the distance from the sun.\nOur earth's axis is tilted.  The northern hemisphere is closer to the sun in the summer and farther in the winter.  This is how we get seasons.\n\nThe moon orbits the earth once every twenty-eight days, give or take an afternoon. The phases of the moon are caused by it being in a slightly different position everyday relative to the sun.  \nThe moon does cause tides - its gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out towards the moon.  However, there is a matching bulge directly opposite the moon.  THAT is why we have two high tides and two low tides a day.  In addition, the sun exerts a lesser pull, which interacts with the moons pull.\n\nSorry about that - had to correct the flagrant misinformation there.\n\nAs for your question - it is a weird effect, isn't it?  Especially when the moon is closer to a new moon.\n\nWhat happens is that our atmosphere scatters the light from the sun so that our sky is quite bright.(Why is the sky blue? has been discussed here many times).  However, the moon is reflecting enough light so that it is brighter than the surrounding sky and we see it.\n\nWhen the moon is less than full, there is very little light reflected off of the dark side of the moon (what light is reflected is earthshine!)  This light is not bright enough to outshine the sky.\n\nThink of a white sheet (in a dark room) that images are being projected onto.  The sheet will look opaque until someone shines a light onto it from the back that is brighter than the image projected from the front.  That is the basic effect that we are getting - the atmosphere is a sheet, with the sun and the moon both shining on to it.
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Correlation like more women go into labor during a full moon.\n\nMeans nothing. Stop trying to find something that ain't there.
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..
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The phases of the moon occur due to its relative position to us and the sun. The sun always shines on half of the moon (except on the rare occassion when the earth is in the way causing a lunar eclipse). If the moon is behind the earth, we see it as a full moon as we can see all of the lit side. When the moon is beside the earth, we see half the lit side and half the side in shadow, which appears to us as a half moon. When it's in front of the earth its a new moon which isn't visible as we can only see the side of the moon in shadow. In between the stages we see the crescent waxing and waning moons.
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No That's just a state of mind. There is no way that the phase of the moon will affect how happy I am today. If you constantly believe and think that, you may automatically find yourself wanting to be happy/sad/angry when a full moon rolls around.
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It isn't "chance" although that is why it is the right/size to produce solar eclipses.\n\nThe moon is not perfectly symmetrical. The crust is thinner on our side, and the core (heavy part of the moon) is displaced towards our side. That acts almost like a handle for the earth's gravity. It has slowed to the point where the earth's gravity now keeps this side pointed towards the earth.\n\nHowever it is not perfect. As seen from the earth, the moon wobbles slightly --- both side to side and up and down. The motion is called libration and allows us to see more than half of the moon. We had a discussion on the yahoo lunar group recently with a link to an animated gif that showed the moon's libration.\n\nIf you are interested in the moon, try\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/\n\nChuck
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Blue Moon of Kentucky
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The reason you can see the moon in the sky during the day is because at that time the moon has rotated to where it is inbetween the earth and the sun.  So they are both visable at the same time.  It takes 28 for the moon to circle the earth, this is also the cause of moon phases, such as full moon/ new moon ect.
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If you can see the moon from both points at the same time then the phase of the moon will be the same.\n\nIf however the moon is visible in Britain, but still below the horizon in Australia, then the phase will have very slightly changed by the time the moon rises in Australia.
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Full Moon is November 5 at 12:58 UTC.
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Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides.\n\nSpring Tides\nWhen the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon.\n\nNeap Tides\nDuring the moon's quarter phases the sun and moon work at right angles, causing the bulges to cancel each other. The result is a smaller difference between high and low tides and is known as a neap tide. Neap tides are especially weak tides. They occur when the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun are perpendicular to one another (with respect to the Earth). Neap tides occur during quarter moons. \n\nIf we had a second moon our tide system would be more complicated.
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Rainbows can exist at night, they are called moonbows, they only occur rarely and are a result of the moon reflecting a lot of the suns light while its raining. So raining + lots of light = difficult conditions!
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the answer is actually no, i say this as i assumen you a refering to a total eclipse. this is when the moon covers the sun and makes everything go blck. there are however partial eclipses(eclipse) on all planets as this is when some object(moon or planet) blocks some of the sunlight from the planet or moon. \n\nwe have an odd situatin when the distance from the sun and the moon to earch exactly match the size of the rays hit by the earth from the sun. that means that the moon as big as it is is just the correct disstance to cover the suns exactly in a total eclipse.\n\nthe same thigs happen with other planets such as venus. when you see it infront of the sun its causeing and eclipse, its blocking some light from the sun, however its so small and so faraway that you cant notice it.\n\nand if you mean do all the planets align with each other the answer is yes. it dont happen very often and i cant tell you when ti happened last or when it will happen, but if you think of it like marbles in a row, and you have your head behind the furthiest you cant see the first or anyothers sept the one your behind. the palants do that.
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The total lunar eclipse does occur more often, simply because it's caused by the shadow of the Earth falling on the Moon and the Earth is larger than the Moon.\n\nBut total lunar eclipses are visible from the entire side of the Earth that happens to be facing the Moon; whereas total solar eclipses are only visible from the narrow path on Earth's surface where the Moon and Sun line up exactly. That's the real reason why total solar eclipses are so seldom seen.