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Post by andi on Aug 27, 2015 10:38:53 GMT -5
This Friday ...
The fishing tribes of North America are given credit for the naming of August’s moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month.
A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/2013/08/16/augusts-full-sturgeon-moon/
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Post by andi on Aug 27, 2015 10:43:20 GMT -5
And no ... It is not a Supermoon. Many astronomers are referring to the August 29th full Moon as a “supermoon.” But here at the Farmers’ Almanac, we understand that a full Moon has to meet certain criteria to truly be considered a supermoon. A supermoon is when a full or new Moon phase coincides with the Moon’s perigee, its closest point in its orbit to the Earth. The absolute closest that the Moon can come is 221,400 miles from Earth. farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/2015/08/17/stop-calling-it-a-supermoon/
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