The night sky in August plays host to two full moons (one of them blue!) and the summer\u0027s best meteor shower
The moon reaches its closest point to the Earth on Aug. 2, and again on Aug. 30. That’s close enough to the full moons of Aug. 1 and Aug. 31 to make them supermoons. They’re easy to see, rising shortly after sunset all across Canada.
While beautiful, supermoons are not much more spectacular than regular full moons – any videos you’ve seen online of the moon filling half the sky are just hokum. And while Nolle notes that the Christchurch earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and the Mt. Pinatubo eruption all took place on a supermoon – well, that’s what’s known as a super coincidence.This is another non-astronomical term, and refers to the second full moon in a calendar month. Since it takes about 29.
The phrase “once in a blue moon” refers to something very rare, but blue moons aren’t super-rare, averaging out to one every 33 months, or 41 times a century. That said, 2018 had a rare “double blue moon,” with a blue moon in January and another in March. The next time that happens will be in 2037. The next regular blue moon will be in May of 2026.
The meteors come from debris from comet Swift-Tuttle. Too small to reach the ground, they are nevertheless visible in numbers of up to one per minute, although the best viewing is as far from city lights as possible. Good news this year — peak activity is the night of Aug. 13, just three days before the new moon, meaning there won’t be much interference from the moon’s glow.
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