August gets not only a second full moon, but a rare Super Blue Moon.
Following the full moon on Wednesday, the moon will rise and set an hour later each night and the illuminated side of the moon will shrink or"wane." This leads to the next new moon on Thursday, Sept. 14, at which time the moon will be completely dark and will rise and set with the sun, meaning it is completely absent from the night sky. The new moon will mark the beginning of the next 29.5-day lunar cycle.
This 14% increase in proximity may sound substantial, but it doesn't make much difference to how the moon appears to the untrained eye, though it is technically larger and brighter in the night sky.saying that they occur on average once every decade. Despite this, a Super Blue Moon could happen twice within the same month, or there could be as long as two decades between one Super Blue Moon and the next.the next supermoon will be on Sept. 18, 2024.
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