MetaFilter posts tagged with fullmoon

The Summer Moon Illusion

digaman — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:32:20 -0800

For the sake of your sanity, for five minutes this week forget the memos, the autopsies, the celebrity verdicts, and the rest. Go outside and look at the full moon, which will hang in the sky at its lowest point in 18 years over the next three nights, says NASA, creating the "summer moon illusion." If you're a US resident, calculate your local moonrise time here.

Waxing Gibbous

Irontom — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 05:30:32 -0800

Names of the Full Moons We are now 4 days past the Snow Moon, and this year it's easy to see (at least here in northern Virginia) why it was so named. It was also called the Hunger Moon... [more inside]

donkeysuck — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:08:08 -0800

Once in a blue moon. Not only will the full moon on Halloween be the first in 40(i think) and the last for another 19 years, it is also a 'blue moon' which means that the moon is full twice in the same month. Notwithstanding any MeFi visitors from Detroit, are you feeling strange yet?