"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 11:36:27 UTC+2 schreef Martin Rowley het
volgende:
... I wrote something up about 'blue moons' and its changed meaning over
the years here ....
http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/161

... and here is a photo of last night's "blue moon" taken at Gorinchem in
the Netherlands http://www.janvissersweer.nl/ (scroll down to the
bottom). The caption repeats the definition you refer to: 2nd full moon
in the same month.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

I remember that in my youth, 1950s, the colour of the moon seen from the UK
was blue, due to forest fires in North America. AFAIK, this has not happened
again in my lifetime.

Cheers, Alastair.