And really, supermoon? It’s a full 7% larger in angular diameter than the average moon. Would you call someone who could lift 7% more weight than the average man a superman? Neither would I.
I will grant the whole “supermoon” thing is a bit silly and definitely overused but it’s not hurting anything, and anything that might drive people to learn a bit more about the solar system and how it all works is not a bad thing.
I’m honestly a little concerned about the That’s No Moon we’ve got coming up.
People getting so bent out of shape because up to this instant in time, humans lived a lot more outdoors, were always conscious of the sky and the weather and the seasons. Chillax, as they say.
English medieval names for the moons:
January:Wolf Moon
February: Storm Moon
March:Chaste Moon
April:Seed Moon
May: Hare Moon
June: Dyan Moon
July: Mead Moon
August:Corn Moon
September:Barley Moon
October: Blood Moon
November:Snow Moon
December:Oak Moon
Substitute english muffins and grits like the professionals do, son, and stop embarrassing yourself. 
When it’s Walk the Moon, I will neither shut up nor dance. Have, like, fer sure no idea what’s gonna happen on, like, Month Moon Unit, you know?
Can we also pit photo journalists who illustrate articles about said supermoon with telephoto images of the moon on the horizon that makes it look like a shot from “When worlds collide”? The super moon is only about 7% bigger and 15% brighter than the average moon. If it looks particularly big to you its more likely probably just the moon illusion rather than anything to do with it being a super moon.
Could we perhaps modernise them with names like:
Super Braveheart Moon
Super Grease Moon
Super Starship Troopers Moon
Super Slapshot Moon
and my favorite, Super Dirty Work Moon
^ Great idea
Super Soaker Moon
and a nod to ABBA - Super Trouper Moon
I’ll have the Super-Size Moon Over My Hammy please. (Made with a real Roc’s egg.)
I recently saw a reference to “Moony McMoonface.”
I’m partial to a good Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Moon
Shine, on, shine on Sun Myung Moon, for me and my Moonie. <3
Its a bomber moon, we can fly the lancasters and short stirlings and be over Berlin
I’d like to know where you got those names. I’ve been looking for reliable references to such “named” moons, and haven’t been able to find them.
I think the whole idea of names for full moons is actually a pretty modern invention, dating back no more than one or two hundred years. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably citing recent sources.
I got interest in this when I went looking for the sources of the name “blue” moon. That turns out to be a very recent invention, dating back to 19th century almanacs. The original meaning was an intercalated month, the third in a season that has four full moons. That month is called “blue moon” instead of whatever it would otherwise be so that the lunar calendar doesn’t slip too far out of line with the solar calendar. It keeps us from having Harvest moon rotating through the year instead of staying in the autumn. The other meaning of a “blue moon” as being in a month with two full moons is a later misinterpretation, as an article in Sky and Telescope pointed out in 2012. It’s not that the moon is called “a” Blue Moon – it’s that it is called “Blue Moon” rather than “Harvest Moon”, or whatever. Since it’s an extra month, it needs a new name.
See here, for instance – Blue Moon — What is it and when is the next one? | Space
:dubious: Well, if you call the Venerable Bede (ca. 725 CE ) “modern”. You have to remember, as Ulfreida said, that in many languages including Old English the words “moon” and “month” were basically interchangeable for a long time. There’s nothing new about calling months “moons” or about assigning different seasonal names to the months.
That said, I don’t know of any medieval European sources listing the specific names Ulfreida mentioned. The attested month names of the early Germanic calendar don’t show much overlap with most of them, except perhaps for “Blood Moon” (which is November rather than October).
I kinda thought this thread would be about werewolf characters whose human forms have names like “Lupin” or “Lupus”.
It is all meant to get us used to the idea of a newly named moon each month.
Then each month’s name will be for sale and we won’t even notice.
There will be a full Pepsi moon before the year is over. Mt. Dew Over the Moon, out soon!!
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.
I want to see a list of the names of the moons from a reliable source.
Trump Wine Moon has a nice…bouquet to it.
Just wait until these full moons get corporate sponsors, like college bowls. Then you’ll have the Harvest Moon presented by State Farm, or Cheezit Moon, or Kraft Fight Hunger Moon.
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.