Did you see that big old moon setting in the southwest this morning? Me, too. And then I thought, this is really cool, a full moon, Easter and April Fool’s Day, all at once. Except that’s not possible. It’s not possible to have a full moon Easter Sunday. Because the rule is, Easter is celebrated the first Sunday AFTER the …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff captured these images Friday night (July 31) in our nation’s capital from the Netherlands Carillon. The blue moon in four of the photos was the first in about three years, and here it shows off a couple of different colors.
A lot of people are confused about the “blue moon.” The moon isn’t really blue, it is just named that because it is rare. It happens about every three years and is called that when there are two full moons in the same month. We had one July 2 and had another July 31. The official exact moment of the full moon was at 4:43 …