Okay baby walsh - please see the below, we are patiently waiting to see you and hold you and just plain old love you, so ... It’s a large waxing gibbous moon that lights up the evening sky on the night of July 19. The moon is moving toward full phase, to usher in the year’s third and final “super” full moon – another supermoon – on July 22, 2013. Another supermoon coming up on July 22 The July 2013 full moon will be the second full moon after the June solstice. There are usually three full moons in between a solstice and an equinox, or vice versa. Seven times in 19 years, however, four full moons fall in a single season. In that case, the third of a season’s four full moons is sometimes called a Blue Moon. The next Blue Moon by this definition will happen next month, on August 21, 2013. A more recent definition of blue moon refers to the second of two full moons to occur in a single calendar month. By this definition, the next blue moon will happen on July 31, 2015. At tonight’s phase of the moon, we in North America see roughly 90% of the lunar disk illuminated in sunshine tonight. Only about 10% of the moon appears engulfed in shadow. If you could see the far side of the moon, you’d see just the opposite: 90% of the lunar disk in shadow and 10% illuminated by sunshine. Or if you were on the near side of the moon, looking back at Earth, you’d see about 10% of the Earth’s disk illuminated by sunshine and 90% covered over in the Earth’s own shadow. In other words, you’d see a waning crescent Earth from tonight’s waxing gibbous moon
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:52:23 +0000
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