This morning, I saw the sun and the moon share the same piece of sky in the east. This baffled me for a while as I thought the sun reflected in order to make the moon visible, so how could we see them both so near to one another?
But, at full moon time, the moon is near the sun - of course it is. That is how we get the rare solar eclipse. (Next full one is in November next year!!!)
Oh, did you know that there actually IS such a thing called the blue moon?! It is rare, but it has nothing to do with the colour. Given that the lunar month is 29.5 days long, there are the few times where there are two full moons in the one calendar month. The second one is called the blue moon. Well, I never!
This morning, the views were just amazing, this evening too...
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| The sun |
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| The moon over the rice paddies |
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| The moon, loitering in the east. |
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| Sunset in the west |
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| Even Elbi has his full moon moments. |
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