The mysterious blue moon is a superstition, a natural phenomenon, or the machinations of the dark forces?
Yesterday, many inhabitants of our planet are rare natural phenomenon Blue Moon. With this natural phenomenon is related quite a number of legends and superstitions. It should be noted that in reality the moon does not change color and it coined the name most associated with the fact that a blue moon is the full moon 13.
Usually, 12 full moons occur every year, one full moon per month . But between full moons passes not exactly a calendar month, and 29, and 53 days as a result of over 3 years in which the situation occurs in the last month there are two full moons.
The last time the blue moon could be seen in August 2012 and the next time it will be in January 2018.
On the last night was a great opportunity to see the moon during a full moon. It was clear and cloudless weather.
The name of the blue moon, full moon in a month, two received in the English-speaking world, where it is called once in a blue moon, and just sounds ferry “sometimes with a blue moon.” In 1528 there was the first mention of a blue moon in the collection «Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I say no thynge but trothe», in the book were very frivolous pamphlets and was directed against the clergy, in particular against the Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, lorda- Chancellor of the kingdom of England in the years 1515-1529.
The first mention of a blue moon look like this:
«Priests – as a cunning fox,
stake, they say that the moon is blue,
We have to believe in these words ».
Although the facts really were. When many people have seen not only a blue moon, but the blue and the sun. However, it was an optical illusion, and it occurred in 1950 due to the fires in the valley Chinchagi – Hay River inflow. Due to a fire in the atmosphere were large particles, which gave the effect of light scattering. Due to the fact that the smoke from this major fire in the northern raprostranilsya polushanie the inhabitants of the Earth Europe and the United States have seen a blue moon.
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