{"id":3042,"date":"2024-08-19T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/rare-blue-supermoon-will-appear-in-skies-tonight-what-is-it\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:00:44","slug":"rare-blue-supermoon-will-appear-in-skies-tonight-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/rare-blue-supermoon-will-appear-in-skies-tonight-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare blue supermoon will appear in skies tonight \u2013 what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blue supermoon will appear on the horizon tonight, kicking off a series of astronomical events.<\/p>\n<p>Supermoons occur when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>A blue moon happens when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re fairly rare \u2013 hence the saying, \u201conce in a blue moon\u201d \u2013 and occur once every two to three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First of four supermoons<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>This is the first of four supermoons in the next four months, and it is coinciding with serious wildfires in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The dust from these may give the moon a red glow; blue moons aren\u2019t actually blue.<\/p>\n<p>The past two nights have seen spectacular moons around the UK, but they were just the warm-up. Tonight\u2019s moon is the official supermoon and if the skies clear, it could be impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The best time to spot a supermoon is during moonrise \u2013 the moon equivalent of sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Start keeping an eye out from around 8.30pm \u2013 the further north you are, the later it will be, with John O\u2019Groats\u2019 moonrise happening at around 9.10pm.<\/p>\n<p>After this supermoon, the next will be on 18 September, followed by 17 October and then finishing with a final supermoon on 15 November.<\/p>\n<p>While tonight\u2019s blue supermoon is rare, September\u2019s coincides with a partial lunar eclipse \u2013 another sight worth watching out for.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blue supermoon will appear on the horizon tonight, kicking off a series of astronomical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}