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Sunday, December 1st, 2024
The traditional full moon name for December is the Full Cold Moon (also called the Long Night Moon). This month's full moon will reach its peak on Sunday, December 15th, at 4:02 AM EST.
The name of this month's full moon is used by the Celts and various ...
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Monday, November 11th, 2024
November is HERE and its time for a bonus Super Moon!! This month, the Weather Channel has details on this months Full moon. The traditional full moon name for November is the Full Beaver Moon. This month's full moon will reach its peak on Friday, November 15th, ...
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Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Fall is HERE and its time for a Super Moon!! Check out the NASA link for a detailed explanation of how different cultures celebrate this event. The traditional full moon name for October is the Full Hunter's Moon. This month's full moon appears already full on Thursday, October ...
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Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
The most common traditional full moon name for September is the Full Harvest Moon. This month's full moon appears already full on Tuesday, September 17th, around 10:35 PM EDT. Note there is even a partial eclipse that evening from around 8:41PM to 0:47AM EDT early Wednesday morning.
Check the almanac ...
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Tuesday, September 10th, 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, 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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