no full moon

I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?

publis posted:

I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?

No, it is not true. In February 1865, full moon was on February 10th. Clear
skies to you.
--
David W. Knisely
Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

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Is this an urban myth? It was in some big email of oddball facts which I am
always a bit skeptical of.





"David Knisely" wrote in message
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publis posted:

I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?

No, it is not true. In February 1865, full moon was on February 10th.
Clear
skies to you.
--
David W. Knisely
Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

**********************************************
* Attend the 11th Annual NEBRASKA STAR PARTY *
* July 18-23, 2004, Merritt Reservoir *
* http://www.NebraskaStarParty.org *
**********************************************

In message , CeeBee
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"publius" wrote in sci.astro:

I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon."

Is that true and if so why?


No, but one year later it was. It's a more common occurance. A full moon
cycle of somewhat over 29 days and a month that three out of four years
has 28 days - well, you can easily work out the "why".


Does the source of publius' quote qualify for Dirac's "not even wrong"?
I hope he tells us what it was so we can avoid it.
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"publius" skrev i meddelandet
...
I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?

Yes, my grandfather stole it.

"Rob" wrote in message ...
"publius" skrev i meddelandet
...
I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?


Off the wall: perhaps nobody has seen one! Wouldn't observer need to
be
on direct line between centers of sun and moon to see the moon as
perfect circle?..........at which time moon is in partial
eclipse!!!!!!!!!!

Jim G

Jim Greenfield wrote:

"Rob" wrote in message ...

"publius" skrev i meddelandet
...

I just read this:

"February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon."

Is that true and if so why?



Off the wall: perhaps nobody has seen one! Wouldn't observer need to
be
on direct line between centers of sun and moon to see the moon as
perfect circle?..........at which time moon is in partial
eclipse!!!!!!!!!!

Jim G

Since the interval between full moons is 29.5 days, February is
certainly the only month that could go with no full moon. See
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/FullMoon.html where a list
of Febs w/o full moons are listed. The most recent was 1999.

--
John Oliver
Associate Professor
Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Astronomy
University of Florida
Project AST@RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu
see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/