> Ian! D. Allen wrote: > And for complete MOON silliness, let's not forget the > so-called Blue Moon: > > # See if next full moon will be in the same month > IF monnum(moondate(2)) == monnum(moondate(2,moondate(2)+1)) > REM [moondate(2)] MSG Blue Moon Month! > ENDIF > # See if previous full moon was in the same month > IF monnum(moondate(2)) == monnum(moondate(2,moondate(2)-32)) > REM [moondate(2)] MSG Second Full Moon! > ENDIF >
Hmm. That would be for a blue moon defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. However, I recalled the definition to be the third full moon in a season with 4 full moons. A bit of google work found some references. http://www.ips-planetarium.org/planetarian/articles/folkloreBlueMoon.html http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/3304131.html?page=1&c=y http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon http://www.moonconnection.com/blue_moon.phtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon Seems we get to pick. :) -- fm _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
