Enough with the fucking full moon names!

This just in… March is coming. Details at 11.

Actually, this February will be a SUPER February! It will be over 3.57% bigger than any February since 2016!!!

I have never heard or read about any of these.

In 2018 both January and March had two full moons, and February none.

The frustration here for me are the stupid OMG SUPERMOON clickbait that far too many of my Facebook “friends” feel compelled to share.

The <insertsupername> 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?

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…

I got Moon Moon :frowning:

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

Actually, there are several that tell you sun/moon rise/set information, including time & location. Very useful for photographers.

Harvest Moon was great fun to play on my SNES.

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.

I use LunaSolCal for the sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset/phase widgets.

: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.

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.

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.