Many Blue Moons
Author: A.R. Peters,
v.2020-12-02
References
James Hugh Pruett: "Once in a Blue Moon".
Sky&Telescope
V(5)
, March 1946, pp.3..4
Michael Quinion:
"Blue Moon".
Roger W. Sinnott, Donald W. Olson, and Richard Tresch Fienberg: "What's a Blue Moon?"
Sky&Telescope
, May 1999, pp.36..38 .
Farmers´Almanac
:
What is a “Blue Moon”?
(now defunct)
C. Philippe E. Nothaft: "The Astronomical Data in the Très Riches Heures and their Fourteenth-Century Source".
J.Hist.Astron.
46(2)
, 1 May 2015, pp.113..129 .
Emily Upton:
The Origin of the Phrase: "Once in a Blue Moon".
Is the blue in blue moon a reference to betrayal?
Links
Calendar miniature for July from the
Très Riches Heures
Calendar miniature for November from the
Très Riches Heures
Calendar miniature for February from the
Très Riches Heures
Calendar miniature for March from the
Très Riches Heures
Kalendarium page for March from the
Tres Riches Heures
Computus in Wikipedia
Liber de Paschate
of Dionysius Exiguus (525 A.D.)
Explanation of the old Computus (in French)
Another page on the Blue Moon (in Dutch)
Moonset Eclipse
Previous: the Super Blue Blood Moon.
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