{"id":37570,"date":"2015-01-06T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37570"},"modified":"2015-01-06T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:05:28","slug":"1-blue-moon-6-supermoons-to-light-night-sky-this-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/06\/1-blue-moon-6-supermoons-to-light-night-sky-this-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"1 blue moon, 6 supermoons to light night sky this 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21475\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21475\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moon-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The rare super moon over European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France (ShutterStock image).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moon.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rare super moon over European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France (ShutterStock image).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 An officer from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) said that skygazers can expect the appearance of one blue moon and six supermoons this 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Mendoza, chief of PAGASA\u2019s Astronomical Publication Unit said that the supermoons are scheduled to appear on January 22, February 19, March 20, August 30, September 28, and October 26. The most visible and closest to the earth is the one on September 28 which will be seen at 9:47 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstrologer Richard Nolle said that if a moon is within 90 percent of its closest approach to earth or less than 361,836 km, it is called a supermoon,\u201d said Mendoza. He also mentioned that in astronomy, a supermoon is usually referred to as perigee full moon.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that there are instances wherein a supermoon can affect the earth\u2019s tides \u201cbut only minimal and will not cause flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mendoza said that the full moon will be seen twice in July \u2013 July 2 and 31- with the latter being a \u201cblue moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens because sometimes the number of days in a calendar month is greater than the cycles of the moon, which is 29.5 days,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat is why there is a saying \u2018once in a blue moon\u2019 because this event rarely happens in one calendar month,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about strange events involved in lunar activities, Mendoza said that those are just myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 An officer from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) said that skygazers can expect the appearance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}