Re: Once in a Blue Moon

Todd E Van Hoosear (vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu)
Sun, 30 Jun 1996 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT)


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FROM: http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/qadir/q889.html

> Will there be a Blue Moon in June or July of 1996?
>
> As I mentioned in a previous question, there will be a Blue Moon in
> July of 1996. Two independent authorities confirm this including the
> 1996 Observers Handbook published by the Royal Astronomical Society of
> Canada, and in the reference book ,b> Astronomical tables of the Sun,
> Moon and Planets by Jean Meeus, published in 1995 by William Bell Inc,
> Richmond Virginia. In fact, the later reference gives the following
> list of Blue Moons:
>
> July 1, 30 1996
> March 2, 31 1999
> November 1, 30 2001
> July 2, 31 2004
> June 1, 30 2007
> December 2, 31 2009
> August 2, 31 2010
> July 2, 31 2015
> March 2, 31 2018
> October 1, 31 2020
> August 1, 31 2023
>
> The 1996 Blue Moon occurs on July 1 at 3:58 Universal Time, and July
> 30, 10:35 Universal Time.
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