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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
The most common traditional full moon name for April is the Pink Moon. One might think of spring time and the robins looking for worms, but check the alternate names in the links below,
This year, the full Moon appears on Tuesday, April 23rd. In the eastern US, the moon ...
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
This is the title page for the "Full Moon Names" collection. This series will contain a growing number of posts under the topics of ethnoastronomy, mythology, and history.
In-the-sky.org has a good introduction to Full Moon Names as well some brief history on lunar calendars and the almanacs that introduced traditional ...
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
The most common traditional full moon name for March is the Worm Moon. One might think of spring time and the robins looking for worms, but check the alternate names in the links below,
This year, the full Moon appears on Saturday, March 25th. In the eastern US, the moon will ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2024
This year, the full Moon appears on Saturday, February 24. In the eastern US, the moon will rise at 7:30AM.
The most common traditional name for this month is the Snow Moon.
From the older Old Farmer's Almanac - February Full Moon. See the article to access a moonrise calculator. There are ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
This year, the full Moon appears on Thursday, January 25. In the eastern US, the moon will rise at 5:59PM.
The most common traditional name for this month is the Wolf Moon.
From the older Old Farmer's Almanac - January Full Moon. See the article to access a moonrise calculator. There are ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2023
For December, the full moon is referred to as the Cold Moon by many North American indigenous peoples. This year, the full moon will appear on the evening of December 26. It's the first full moon after the winter solstice.
You can start exploring how various cultures have celebrated the full ...
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
The nights are getting longer and the sun is lower in the sky each day. Our planet is bathed in sunlight at a more oblique angle and the signs all around of Winter are unmistakable. And for centuries, even before written history, human kind has marked our Sun's arch in ...
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
A few posts ago I started to take an overview of Star names & their origin. As I said at the outset, this series will be more of a reference post since the literature on this topic is vast and not worth trying to recreate. The adage I follow to ...
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Saturday, April 20th, 2013
This is another post about Rich Holtzin's blog, this time covering the amazing archeological site of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. There will be more blogs on this since it is a growing interest of mine. But for now, here re the links to his two part series on Chaco. ...
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
I am always on the lookout for interesting articles on astronomy and recently I came across a series on archeoastronomy by Rich Holtzin. He has been on an extensive tour of the South West United States since late last year and has spent quite a lot of time visiting archeological ...
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