12.8 day old moon
95.5 percent lit
August 27, 2020
By Marcus Schneck
The next full moon, (click here) the Full Corn Moon, will shine the night of Tuesday, September 1, into the morning of September 2.
With a lunar cycle averaging 29.5 days, that will place the subsequent full moon, the Harvest Moon, on October 1, allowing for a second full moon in October, a Blue Moon, on Halloween, October 31.
“A Blue Moon is a fairly infrequent phenomenon involving the appearance of an additional full moon within a given period,” according to Space.com. “But which period? It turns out there are two definitions of the term, and one was borne out of a misunderstanding of the other....
