# Enough with the fucking full moon names! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626 "2020-02-08T14:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/41 "2020-02-10T16:21:00Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > If all these moons are just names of the months used since the dawn of time then… who gives a shit? If “Storm Moon” is just another way of saying February, then I don’t need to hear about it. It’s nothing special, it’s just a twee way of saying February. Stop running “news” articles about the fact that it’s February. This just in… March is coming. Details at 11. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/42 "2020-02-10T16:25:08Z")
Actually, this February will be a SUPER February! It will be over 3.57% bigger than any February since 2016!!! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/43 "2020-02-10T16:42:00Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Super Worm Moon > Super Pink Moon > Super Flower Moon > Strawberry MoonBuck Moon > Sturgeon Moon > Harvest Moon > Corn Moon > Hunter’s Moon > Beaver Moon (Really? Freaking _ **Beaver Moon** _?) > Cold Moon I have never heard or read about any of these. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/44 "2020-02-10T18:05:55Z")
In 2018 both January and March had two full moons, and February none. ---
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/45 "2020-02-10T19:51:10Z")
The frustration here for me are the stupid OMG SUPERMOON clickbait that far too many of my Facebook “friends” feel compelled to share. The \ moon will fill up the entire sky!!! Really? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/46 "2020-02-10T21:06:56Z")
> [@baileygrrrl](#): > > The frustration here for me are the stupid OMG SUPERMOON clickbait that far too many of my Facebook “friends” feel compelled to share. > > The \ moon will fill up the entire sky!!! > > Really? But without the clickbait to tell me the best way to see the super gassy bean moon, how will I see it? Do I need to look outside? Do I look down or do I look up? Which direction do I look? How can I be certain that I am looking at the moon? If I am looking at the moon is it the right moon? Is there an app for this? ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/47 "2020-02-10T22:27:39Z")
Enough with this stuff about Full Moons. What about Half Moons? There is no Half Moon. It goes from Full to Quarter moon, with no half in there. What’s up with that? And, why aren’t the quarter moons given names? Not big enough? The guys who demoted Pluto are probably behind it all… ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/48 "2020-02-11T00:53:45Z")
I got Moon Moon ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/49 "2020-02-11T00:58:00Z")
As a William Butler Yeats fan, I am all into Moon. Give them all poetic names. I am on board. Remember, the Full is Napoleon, the Dark is Christ. Sing me the changes of the Moon once more… [https://www.bartleby.com/148/35.html](https://www.bartleby.com/148/35.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/50 "2020-02-11T19:00:26Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Is there an app for this? Actually, there are several that tell you sun/moon rise/set information, including time & location. Very useful for photographers. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/51 "2020-02-11T20:05:23Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I have never heard or read about any of these. Harvest Moon was great fun to play on my SNES. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/52 "2020-02-11T20:14:46Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Enough with this stuff about Full Moons. What about Half Moons? > > There is no Half Moon. It goes from Full to Quarter moon, with no half in there. What’s up with that? > > And, why aren’t the quarter moons given names? Not big enough? > > The guys who demoted Pluto are probably behind it all… Half moons have names. Either first quarter, or last quarter. It depends on which half is lit and which half is dark. The reason the half moon is called a “quarter” is because if you quarter the moon phases into 4 stages, then the moon would start fully dark (new moon), then half lit (first quarter), then fully lit (full moon), then half lit the other way (last quarter) before starting again dark. Quarter moons also have names. They are waxing and waning crescents. The 3/4 full moons are waxing and waning gibbous. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/53 "2020-02-11T22:01:05Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Actually, there are several that tell you sun/moon rise/set information, including time & location. Very useful for photographers. I use [LunaSolCal](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vvse.lunasolcal&hl=en_US) for the sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset/phase widgets. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/54 "2020-02-13T00:57:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Gimme a cite for the Bede and maybe I’ll believe you. I’ve read Bede, and don’t recall this. > > Also, no saying that the names of months count. We’re talking about naming the moons, not necessarily the period of time marked by them. :rolleyes: I just told you I was talking about month names. If you don’t think month names count, then why are you asking for a cite for them? Anyway, the cite for Bede’s list of Germanic month names is Caput XV, “De mensibus Anglorum”, of the [_De temporum ratione_](http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/02m/0627-0735,_Beda_Venerabilis,_De_Temporum_Ratione,_MLT.pdf). ISTM that your nitpick about distinguishing between month names and full moon names is silly. AFAICT, no pre-modern culture including Native American ones differentiated the seasonal name of a full moon from that of the month in which it occurred. E.g., the Sap Moon occurs in the Sap Month, just as for the ancient Hebrews the Adar full moon occurred in the month of Adar and for ancient South Asians the Caitra full moon occurred in the month of Caitra. You don’t have Moon Name A occurring in Month Name B, except in an artificial system like our modern one (and, e.g., ancient Egyptian and Roman ones) where seasonal month names have no calendric relation to actual lunar cycles. In such a system any reference to a seasonally-named actual lunar phase is obviously an “exotic” borrowing from a different calendar system. But in any system where the months are truly lunar, any list of month names _ipso facto_ **is** a list of moon names. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/55 "2020-02-13T02:33:04Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Its a bomber moon, we can fly the lancasters and short stirlings and be over Berlin You can do that any night, but with a bomber moon you can be reasonably sure you are over a city. Might not be Berlin, or even in Germany, but it’s probably not fields of barley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626.md?page=2)