قمر أزرق
القمر الأزرق (blue moon)، يشير إلى وجود قمر مكتمل (بدر) ثاني في أحد أشهر التقويم، أو قمر مكتمل ثالث في فصل يحتوي على أربعة أقمار مكتملة، أو قمر يظهر باللون الأزرق بسبب التأثيرات الجوية.[1]
إن المعنى التقويمي لمصطلح "القمر الأزرق" لا يرتبط بالمعاني الأخرى. وغالباً ما يُشار إليه بأنه "تقليدي"،[2][3] لكن بما أنه لا توجد أي أحداث معروفة قبل عام 1937، فمن الأفضل وصفه بأنه تقليد مخترع أو "فلكلور أمريكي حديث".[4]
بدأت ممارسة تسمية القمر المكتمل الثاني في الشهر "بالقمر الأزرق" مع عالم الفلك الهاوي جيمس هيو پروت عام 1946.[5] لا ينبع ذلك من التقاليد القمرية الأمريكية الأصلية، كما يُفترض أحياناً.[6][7]
القمر - ليس بالضرورة قمراً مكتملاً - قد يظهر أحياناً باللون الأزرق بسبب الانبعاثات الجوية الناتجة عن حرائق الغابات الكبيرة أو البراكين، على الرغم من أن هذه الظاهرة نادرة وغير متوقعة (ومن هنا جاء المثل "عندما يظهر القمر الأزرق").[8][9][10]
القمر الأزرق التقويمي (بحسب تعريف پروت) يمكن التنبؤ به وشائع نسبياً، حيث يحدث 7 مرات كل 19 سنة (أي مرة كل سنتين أو 3 سنوات).[1] تحدث ظاهرة القمر الأزرق التقويمي لأن الفترة بين اكتمال القمرين المتتاليين (حوالي 29.5 يومًا) أقصر من متوسط الشهر التقويمي.[11] ليس لظاهرة القمر الأزرق أي أهمية فلكية أو تاريخية، وليست نتاجاً لتقويم قمري شمسي فعلي أو لتوفيق التقاويم.
أصل الاسم
A 1528 satire, Rede Me and Be Nott Wrothe, contained the lines, "Yf they saye the mone is belewe / We must beleve that it is true."[12] The intended sense was of an absurd belief, like the moon being made of cheese. There is nothing to connect it with the later metaphorical or calendrical meanings of "blue moon". However, a confusion of belewe (Middle English, "blue")[13] with belǽwan (Old English "to betray")[14]) led to a false etymology for the calendrical term that remains widely circulated, despite its originator having acknowledged it as groundless.[15][16][17]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Alastor" (1816) [18] mentioned an erupting volcano[18] and a "blue moon / Low in the west." [18] It was written at a time when the eruption of Mount Tambora was causing global climate effects, and not long before the first recorded instances of "blue moon" as a metaphor.
The OED cites Pierce Egan's Real Life in London (1821) as the earliest known occurrence of "blue moon" in the metaphorical sense of a long time. ("How's Harry and Ben?—haven't seen you this blue moon.")[19] An 1823 revision of Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, edited by Egan, included the definition: "Blue moon. In allusion to a long time before such a circumstance happens. 'O yes, in a blue moon'."[20] An earlier (1811) version of the same dictionary had not included the phrase, so it was likely coined some time in the 1810s.[21] "Once in a blue moon" is recorded from 1833.[1]
The use of blue moon to mean a specific calendrical event dates from 1937, when the Maine Farmers' Almanac used the term in a slightly different sense from the one now in common use. According to the OED, "Earlier occurrences of the sense given in the Maine Farmers' Almanac have not been traced, either in editions of the Almanac prior to 1937, or elsewhere; the source of this application of the term (if it is not a coinage by the editor, H. P. Trefethen) is unclear."[1] The conjecture of editorial invention is further supported by the spurious explanation the almanac gave:
The Moon usually comes full twelve times in a year, three times in each season... However, occasionally the moon comes full thirteen times in a year. This was considered a very unfortunate circumstance, especially by the monks who had charge of the calendar. It became necessary for them to make a calendar of thirteen months, and it upset the regular arrangement of church festivals. For this reason thirteen came to be considered an unlucky number. Also, this extra moon had a way of coming in each of the seasons so that it could not be given a name appropriate to the time of year like the other moons. It was usually called the Blue Moon... In olden times the almanac makers had much difficulty calculating the occurrence of the Blue Moon and this uncertainty gave rise to the expression "Once in a Blue Moon". [3]
There is no evidence that an extra moon in a month, season or year was considered unlucky, or that it led to 13 being considered unlucky, or that the extra moon was called "blue", or that it led to the phrase "once in a blue moon". There is good reason to suspect that the 1937 article was a hoax, a practical joke, or simply misinformed. It is however true that the date of the Christian festival of Easter depended on an accurate computation of full moon dates, and important work was done by the monks Dionysius Exiguus and Bede, explained by the latter in The Reckoning of Time, written c725 CE. According to Bede, "Whenever it was a common year, [the Anglo-Saxons] gave three lunar months to each season. When an embolismic year occurred (that is, one of 13 lunar months) they assigned the extra month to summer, so that three months together bore the name Litha; hence they called [the embolismic] year Thrilithi. It had four summer months, with the usual three for the other seasons." The name Litha is now applied by some Neo-Pagans to midsummer.[22]
The 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac article was misinterpreted by James Hugh Pruett in a 1946 Sky and Telescope article, leading to the calendrical definition of "blue moon" that is now commonly used, i.e. the second full moon in a calendar month. "A blue moon in the original Maine Farmers' Almanac sense can only occur in the months of February, May, August, and November. In the latter sense, one can occur in any month except February."[1] (Technically, one can occur in February of leap years, when there is 29 days, with the first full moon occurring on February 1st and the second occurring on February 29th.) This later sense gained currency from its use in a United States radio programme, StarDate on January 31, 1980 and in a question in the Trivial Pursuit game in 1986.[23][24]
Several songs have been titled "Blue Moon", seen as a "symbol of sadness and loneliness."[24]
القمر الأزرق بصرياً

The moon (and sun[26]) can appear blue under certain atmospheric conditions – for instance, if volcanic eruptions or large-scale fires release particles into the atmosphere of just the right size to preferentially scatter red light.[9] According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, scattering is the cause of "that epitome of rare occurrences, the blue Moon (seen when forest fires produce clouds composed of small droplets of organic compounds)." [8]
A Royal Society report on the 1883 Krakatoa eruption[27] gave a detailed account of "blue, green, and other coloured appearances of the sun and moon" seen in many places for months afterwards.[27]. The report mentioned that in February 1884 an observer in central America saw the crescent moon as "a magnificent emerald-green" while its earthlit part was "pale green". Venus, bright stars and a comet were also green.[27] The report authors suspected that green moons were a contrast effect, since in those cases the surrounding sky was seen as red.[27]
People saw blue moons in 1983 after the eruption of the El Chichón volcano in Mexico, and there are reports of blue moons caused by Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991.[28]
The moon looked blue after forest fires in Sweden and Canada in 1950 and 1951,[29] On September 23, 1950, several muskeg fires that had been smoldering for several years in Alberta, Canada, suddenly blew up into major—and very smoky—fires. Winds carried the smoke eastward and southward with unusual speed, and the conditions of the fire produced large quantities of oily droplets of just the right size (about 1 micrometre in diameter) to scatter red and yellow light. Wherever the smoke cleared enough so that the sun was visible, it was lavender or blue. Ontario, Canada, and much of the east coast of the United States were affected by the following day, and two days later, observers in Britain reported an indigo sun in smoke-dimmed skies, followed by an equally blue moon that evening.[28][30]
Ice particles might have a similar effect. The Antarctic diary of Robert Falcon Scott for July 11, 1911 mentioned "the air thick with snow, and the moon a vague blue".[31]
The key to a blue moon is having many particles slightly wider than the wavelength of red light (0.7 micrometer)—and no other sizes present. Ash and dust clouds thrown into the atmosphere by fires and storms usually contain a mixture of particles with a wide range of sizes, with most smaller than 1 micrometer, and they tend to scatter blue light. This kind of cloud makes the moon turn red; thus red moons are far more common than blue moons.[32]
القمر الأزرق التقويمي

Blue moon as a calendrical term originated with the 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac, a provincial U.S. magazine that is not to be confused with the Farmers' Almanac, Old Farmer's Almanac, or other American almanacs. There is no evidence of "blue moon" having been used as a specific calendrical term before 1937, and it was possibly invented by the magazine's editor, Henry Porter Trefethen (1887-1957).[1] As a term for the second full moon in a calendar month it began to be widely known in the U.S. in the mid-1980s and became internationally known in the late 1990s when calendrical matters were of special interest given the approaching millennium. It created a misapprehension that the calendrical meaning of "blue moon" had preceded the metaphorical one, and inspired various folk etymologies, e.g. the "betrayer" speculation mentioned earlier, or that it came from a printing convention in calendars or a saying in Czech.[33] A 1997 Taiwanese movie, Blue Moon, had the log line "There is usually only one full moon every month, but occasionally there are two – and that second full moon is called the Blue Moon. It is said that when a person sees a blue moon and makes a wish, he will be granted a second chance in things."[34]
In 1999 folklorist Philip Hiscock presented a timeline for the calendrical term.[35] First, the August page of the 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac ran a sidebar claiming that the term was used "in olden times" for an extra full moon in a season, and gave some examples (21 November 1915, 22 August 1918, 21 May 1921, 20 February 1924, 21 November 1934, 22 August 1937, and 21 May 1940). Six years later, Laurence J. Lafleur (1907–66) quoted the almanac in the U.S. magazine Sky & Telescope (July 1943, page 17) in answer to a reader's question about the meaning of "blue moon". Then James Hugh Pruett (1886-1955) quoted it again in Sky & Telescope (March 1946, p3), saying "seven times in 19 years there were — and still are — 13 full moons in a year. This gives 11 months with one full moon each and one with two. This second in a month, so I interpret it, was called Blue Moon". In 1980 the term was used (with Pruett's definition) in a U.S. radio program, Star Date, and in 1985 it appeared in a U.S. children's book, The Kids' World Almanac of Records and Facts ("What is a blue moon? When there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon. It is a rare occurrence.")[36] In 1986 it was included as a question in Trivial Pursuit (likely taken from the children's book), and in 1988 a forthcoming blue moon received widespread press coverage.
In 1999 U.S. astronomer Donald W. Olson researched the original articles and published the results in a Sky & Telescope article co-authored with Richard T Fienberg and Roger W. Sinnott. From the examples given by Trefethen in the 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac they deduced a "rule" he must effectively have used. "Seasonal Moon names are assigned near the spring equinox in accordance with the ecclesiastical rules for determining the dates of Easter and Lent. The beginnings of summer, fall, and winter are determined by the dynamical mean Sun. When a season contains four full Moons, the third is called a Blue Moon."[37][38] They termed this the "Maine rule" for blue moons, as distinct from Pruett's 1946 definition that was seen to have been a misinterpretation.
In popular astronomy the Maine rule is sometimes called the "seasonal",[39] "true"[40] or "traditional"[41] rule (though of course no tradition of it exists prior to 1937). Blue moons by Pruett's definition are sometimes called "calendar blue moons".[42] The "seasonal" blue moon rule is itself ambiguous since it depends which definition of season is used. The Maine rule used seasons of equal length with the ecclesiastical equinox (March 21). An alternative is to use the astronomical seasons, which are of unequal length.
There is also reference in modern popular astrology to "zodiacal blue moons".[43]
تواريخ القمر الأزرق
The table below has blue moon dates and times (UTC) calculated according to Pruett's "calendar" rule (second full moon in a calendar month) and two versions of the "seasonal" rule (third full moon in a season with four). The Maine rule uses equal-length seasons defined by the dynamical mean sun, and is presumed to have been the original rule of Trefethen.[38] The "astro-seasonal" rule uses the unequal astronomical seasons defined by the apparent sun. All calculations are by David Harper.[44]
The fourth column shows blue moon dates that were actually printed in the Maine Farmers' Almanac, as found by Olson, Fienberg and Sinnott in 1999. They studied issues published between 1819 and 1962, and found that all mentions occurred between 1937, when H.P. Trefethen introduced the term, and 1956, when Trefethen's editorship ended (consistent with it being Trefethen's own invention). Occasional discrepancies between the Maine rule and the almanac's printed dates can be ascribed to clerical errors or miscalculation. In one case (August 1945) Trefethen appears to have used the apparent rather than mean sun.[37]
The table shows that in 200 years there are 187 full moons that could be called "blue" by some definition – an average of nearly one per year. Two Pruett blue moons can occur in a single year (1915, 1961, 1999, 2018, 2037, 2094). 1915 had four blue moons (two Pruett, one Maine, one astro-seasonal). 1934 and 2048 have three (one of each type).
Despite the 187 blue moons appearing across the 200 years in this table, only 146 years have any of these 3 types of blue moons, leaving 54 years (thus averaging just over 1 year in every 4) which have none of the 3 rules represented in that calendar year.
While not totally unexpected (given the overlapping frequencies of these 3 rules), it so happens there are not any 2 sequential years (at least within these 200) wherein none of the 3 types of blue moon occur.
Conversely, despite the preponderance of years with blue moons (of at least 1 type) occurring in this 200-year range, there are no instances of more than 4 sequential years having a blue moon, of any of these 3 types. In other words, at least 1 year out of every 5 sequential years has none of the 3 types appearing.
| Year | Pruett rule[45] | Maine rule[46] | Astro-Seasonal[46] | Almanac[37] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 31 يوليو الساعة 10:35 | |||
| 1902 | 22 مايو الساعة 10:46 | 22 مايو الساعة 10:46 | ||
| 1904 | 31 مارس الساعة 12:45 | |||
| 1905 | 19 فبراير الساعة 18:52 | 19 فبراير الساعة 18:52 | ||
| 1906 | 30 نوفمبر الساعة 23:07 | |||
| 1907 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 12:15 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 12:15 | ||
| 1909 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 05:06 | |||
| 1910 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 19:14 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 19:14 | ||
| 1912 | 30 مايو الساعة 23:29 | |||
| 1913 | 21 فبراير الساعة 02:03 | 20 مايو الساعة 07:18 | ||
| 1915 | 31 يناير الساعة 04:42 | |||
| 1915 | 31 مارس الساعة 05:36 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 17:36 | 24 أغسطس الساعة 21:40 | 21 نوفمبر |
| 1917 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 20:31 | |||
| 1918 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 05:02 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 05:02 | 22 أغسطس | |
| 1920 | 30 يوليو الساعة 23:17 | |||
| 1921 | 21 مايو الساعة 20:15 | 21 مايو الساعة 20:15 | مايو 21 | |
| 1923 | 30 أبريل الساعة 21:31 | |||
| 1924 | 20 فبراير الساعة 16:07 | 18 مايو الساعة 21:52 | 20 فبراير | |
| 1925 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 17:15 | |||
| 1926 | 23 أغسطس 23 الساعة 12:38 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 12:38 | الصيف | |
| 1928 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 02:35 | |||
| 1929 | 23 مايو الساعة 12:50 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 09:42 | الربيع | |
| 1931 | 31 مايو الساعة 14:31 | |||
| 1932 | 22 فبراير الساعة 02:07 | 20 مايو الساعة 05:09 | الشتاء | |
| 1933 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 20:53 | |||
| 1934 | 31 مارس الساعة 01:15 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 04:26 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 19:37 | 21 نوفمبر |
| 1936 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 20:59 | |||
| 1937 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 00:47 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 00:47 | 22 أغسطس | |
| 1939 | 31 يوليو الساعة 06:37 | |||
| 1940 | 21 مايو الساعة 13:33 | 21 مايو الساعة 13:33 | 21 مايو | |
| 1942 | 30 أبريل الساعة 21:58 | |||
| 1943 | 20 فبراير الساعة 05:45 | 19 مايو الساعة 21:13 | 20 فبراير | |
| 1944 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 13:36 | |||
| 1945 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 15:13 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 12:03 | 23 أغسطس | |
| 1947 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 16:33 | |||
| 1948 | 23 مايو الساعة 00:37 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 17:32 | 23 مايو | |
| 1950 | 31 مايو الساعة 12:44 | |||
| 1951 | 21 مايو الساعة 05:45 | 21 مايو الساعة 05:45 | 21 مايو | |
| 1952 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 05:06 | |||
| 1953 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 23:12 | 24 أغسطس الساعة 20:21 | 20 نوفمبر | |
| 1955 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 06:03 | |||
| 1956 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 12:38 | أغسطس الساعة 12:38 | 21 أغسطس | |
| 1958 | 30 يوليو الساعة 16:46 | |||
| 1959 | 22 مايو الساعة 12:56 | 22 مايو الساعة 12:56 | ||
| 1961 | 31 يناير 31 الساعة 18:46 | |||
| 1961 | 30 أبريل الساعة 18:41 | 22 نوفمبر الساعة 09:44 | ||
| 1962 | 19 فبراير الساعة 13:18 | 19 مايو الساعة 14:32 | ||
| 1963 | 30 نوفمبر الساعة 23:55 | |||
| 1964 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 15:43 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 05:25 | ||
| 1966 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 00:13 | |||
| 1967 | 23 مايو الساعة 20:22 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 02:27 | ||
| 1969 | 31 مايو الساعة 13:17 | |||
| 1970 | 21 مايو الساعة 03:38 | 21 مايو الساعة 03:38 | ||
| 1971 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 20:18 | |||
| 1972 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 23:07 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 23:07 | ||
| 1974 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 01:20 | |||
| 1975 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 19:48 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 19:48 | ||
| 1977 | 30 يوليو الساعة 10:52 | |||
| 1978 | 22 مايو الساعة 13:17 | 22 مايو الساعة 13:17 | ||
| 1980 | 31 مارس الساعة 15:13 | |||
| 1981 | 18 فبراير الساعة 22:58 | 18 فبراير الساعة 22:58 | ||
| 1982 | 30 ديسمبر الساعة 11:31 | |||
| 1983 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 12:29 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 14:59 | ||
| 1985 | 31 يوليو الساعة 21:40 | |||
| 1986 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 18:54 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 18:54 | ||
| 1988 | 31 مايو الساعة 10:54 | |||
| 1989 | 20 فبراير الساعة 15:32 | 20 مايو الساعة 18:16 | ||
| 1990 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 18:36 | |||
| 1991 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 22:56 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 22:56 | ||
| 1993 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 18:54 | |||
| 1994 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 06:47 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 06:47 | ||
| 1996 | 30 يوليو الساعة 10:35 | |||
| 1997 | 22 مايو الساعة 09:13 | 22 مايو الساعة 09:13 | ||
| 1999 | 31 يناير الساعة 16:05 | |||
| 1999 | 31 مارس الساعة 22:50 | |||
| 2000 | 19 فبراير الساعة 16:27 | 19 فبراير الساعة 16:27 | ||
| 2001 | 30 نوفمبر الساعة 20:49 | |||
| 2002 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 01:34 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 22:29 | ||
| 2004 | 31 يوليو الساعة 18:05 | |||
| 2005 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 17:53 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 17:53 | ||
| 2007 | 30 يونيو الساعة 13:48 | |||
| 2008 | 21 فبراير الساعة 03:30 | 20 مايو الساعة 02:11 | ||
| 2009 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 19:11 | |||
| 2010 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 17:27 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 17:27 | ||
| 2012 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 13:56 | |||
| 2013 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 01:44 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 01:44 | ||
| 2015 | 31 يوليو الساعة 10:41 | |||
| 2016 | 21 مايو الساعة 21:14 | 21 مايو الساعة 21:14 | ||
| 2018 | 31 يناير الساعة 13:27 | |||
| 2018 | 31 مارس الساعة 12:35 | |||
| 2019 | 19 فبراير الساعة 15:53 | 18 مايو الساعة 21:11 | ||
| 2020 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 14:47 | |||
| 2021 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 08:57 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 12:02 | ||
| 2023 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 01:35 | |||
| 2024 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 18:25 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 18:25 | ||
| 2026 | 31 مايو الساعة 08:44 | |||
| 2027 | 20 فبراير الساعة 23:23 | 20 مايو الساعة 10:59 | ||
| 2028 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 16:48 | |||
| 2029 | 21 نوفمبر الساعة 04:02 | 24 أغسطس الساعة 01:51 | ||
| 2031 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 18:56 | |||
| 2032 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 01:46 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 01:46 | ||
| 2034 | 31 يوليو الساعة 05:54 | |||
| 2035 | 22 مايو الساعة 04:25 | 22 مايو الساعة 04:25 | ||
| 2037 | 31 يناير الساعة 14:01 | |||
| 2037 | 31 مارس الساعة 09:53 | |||
| 2038 | 19 فبراير الساعة 16:09 | 18 مايو الساعة 18:23 | ||
| 2039 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 22:36 | |||
| 2040 | 18 نوفمبر الساعة 19:05 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 09:09 | ||
| 2042 | 31 أغسطس الساعة 01:59 | |||
| 2043 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 15:04 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 15:04 | ||
| 2045 | 30 مايو الساعة 17:51 | |||
| 2046 | 20 مايو الساعة 03:15 | 20 مايو الساعة 03:15 | ||
| 2048 | 31 يناير الساعة 00:13 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 11:19 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 18:06 | |
| 2050 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 17:31 | |||
| 2051 | 22 أغسطس 22 الساعة 01:34 | 22 أغسطس 22 الساعة 01:34 | ||
| 2053 | 30 يوليو 30 الساعة 17:03 | |||
| 2054 | 21 مايو 21 الساعة 15:16 | 21 مايو 21 الساعة 15:16 | ||
| 2056 | 31 مارس الساعة 10:22 | |||
| 2057 | 19 فبراير الساعة 11:56 | 18 مايو الساعة 19:02 | ||
| 2058 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 12:51 | |||
| 2059 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 13:09 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 09:41 | ||
| 2061 | 30 أغسطس الساعة 22:17 | |||
| 2062 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 03:55 | 20 أغسطس الساعة 03:55 | ||
| 2064 | 30 مايو الساعة 10:34 | |||
| 2065 | 20 مايو الساعة 02:05 | 20 مايو الساعة 02:05 | ||
| 2066 | 31 ديسمبر الساعة 14:40 | |||
| 2067 | 30 مارس الساعة 20:07 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 23:49 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 23:49 | |
| 2069 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 18:06 | |||
| 2070 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 19:53 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 19:53 | ||
| 2072 | 31 مايو الساعة 22:15 | |||
| 2073 | 21 مايو الساعة 10:02 | 21 مايو الساعة 10:02 | ||
| 2075 | 30 أبريل الساعة 18:35 | |||
| 2076 | 19 فبراير الساعة 23:48 | 18 مايو الساعة 17:38 | ||
| 2077 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 10:36 | |||
| 2078 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 12:52 | 23 أغسطس الساعة 08:11 | ||
| 2080 | 31 يوليو الساعة 19:12 | |||
| 2081 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 11:15 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 11:15 | ||
| 2083 | 31 مايو الساعة 09:41 | |||
| 2084 | 20 مايو الساعة 02:36 | 20 مايو الساعة 02:36 | ||
| 2085 | 30 ديسمبر الساعة 23:57 | |||
| 2086 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 20:12 | 20 نوفمبر الساعة 20:12 | ||
| 2088 | 30 سبتمبر الساعة 15:25 | |||
| 2089 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 06:15 | 21 أغسطس الساعة 06:15 | ||
| 2091 | 30 يوليو الساعة 11:58 | |||
| 2092 | 21 مايو الساعة 10:00 | 21 مايو الساعة 10:00 | ||
| 2094 | 31 يناير الساعة 12:35 | |||
| 2094 | 30 أبريل الساعة 13:54 | |||
| 2095 | 19 فبراير الساعة 06:59 | 19 مايو الساعة 09:21 | ||
| 2096 | 31 أكتوبر الساعة 11:13 | |||
| 2097 | 19 نوفمبر الساعة 13:03 | 22 أغسطس الساعة 23:52 | ||
| 2099 | 30 أغسطس الساعة 17:55 | |||
| 2100 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 21:29 | 19 أغسطس الساعة 21:29 |
الملاحظات
One lunation (an average lunar cycle) is 29.53 days. There are about 365.24 days in a tropical year. Therefore, about 12.37 lunations (365.24 days divided by 29.53 days) occur in a tropical year. So the date of the full moon falls back by nearly one day every calendar month on average. Each calendar year contains roughly 11 days more than the number of days in 12 lunar cycles, so every two or three years (seven times in the 19 year Metonic cycle), there is an extra full moon in the year. The extra full moon necessarily falls in one of the four seasons (however defined), giving that season four full moons instead of the usual three.[47][48][49]
Given that a year is approximately 365.2425 days and a synodic orbit is 29.5309 days,[50] then there are about 12.368 synodic months in a year. For this to add up to another full month would take 1/0.368 years. Thus it would take about 2.716 years, or 2 years, 8 months, and 18 days for another Pruett blue moon to occur. Or approximately once in 32.5 months on an average.
When there are two Pruett blue moons in a single year, the first occurs in January and the second in March or April, and there is no full moon in February.[51][52]
The next time New Year's Eve falls on a Pruett blue moon (as occurred on December 31, 2009 in time zones west of UTC+05) is after one Metonic cycle, in 2028 in time zones west of UTC+08. At that time there will be a total lunar eclipse.
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So, 'blue moon' as most of us today know it, is modern American folklore, but with a long interesting history involving calendars and the measuring of the year. Still, no matter what meaning you give it, blue moons are pretty rare, and everyone knows what you mean when you say "once in a blue moon!"
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Some three years later, in March 1946, an article entitled "Once in a Blue Moon" appeared in Sky & Telescope (page 3). Its author, James Hugh Pruett (1886-1955), was an amateur astronomer living in Eugene, Oregon, and a frequent contributor to Sky & Telescope. Pruett wrote on a variety of topics, especially fireball meteors. In his article on Blue Moons, he mentioned the 1937 Maine almanac and repeated some of Lafleur's earlier comments. Then he went on to say, "Seven times in 19 years there were — and still are — 13 full moons in a year. This gives 11 months with one full moon each and one with two. This second in a month, so I interpret it, was called Blue Moon."
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Neither the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), nor the Online Etymology Dictionary provide any support for the idea that the term "blue moon" has any connection to Old English belǽwan "to betray". To the contrary, the OED indicates that the "blue" in "blue moon" is derived from the familiar color word, which is a loanword from French (although French in turn got the word from a Germanic language). The OED does indicate that the color word blue was spelled "belewe" in some Middle English manuscript or manuscripts.
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Many years ago in the pages of Natural History magazine, I speculated that the rule might have evolved out of the fact that the word "belewe" came from the Old English, meaning, "to betray." "Perhaps," I suggested, "the second full Moon is 'belewe' because it betrays the usual perception of one full moon per month." But as innovative as my explanation was, it turned out to be completely wrong.
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One explanation connects it with the word belewe from Old English, meaning, "to betray." Perhaps, then, the Moon was "belewe" because it betrayed the usual perception of one full Moon per month? That would make sense.
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Quite where the term blue moon came from is unclear. It may be a mispronounciation of the disused word "belewe" which means 'to betray'. This may be a reference to the betrayal of the usual idea of having one full moon in each month or perhaps the "betrayal" by the Moon of worshippers attempting to determine the position and duration of Lent in the calendar year.
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I've checked with several native speakers of Czech and found nothing like "blue Moon." Secondly, an e-mail correspondent told me several years ago that calendar printers would always print a full Moon in red except when it was the second one in a month; then it would be printed in blue! That sounded wonderfully plausible -— until I looked at older calendars and found none that were so.
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