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50-588: Flower Moon may refer to: A full moon "Flower Moon", a track on the Vampire Weekend album Father of the Bride (album) Flower moon, a phenomenon of fields of blooms featured in the book and the film discussed below Killers of the Flower Moon (book) , a nonfiction book about Osage murders by David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon (film) ,

100-590: A lunar eclipse as the Moon crosses the ecliptic at opposition from the Sun. Many almanacs list full moons not only by date, but also by their exact time, usually in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Typical monthly calendars that include lunar phases may be offset by one day when prepared for a different time zone . The full moon is generally a suboptimal time for astronomical observation of

150-694: A 1706 reference, and for "hunter's moon" a 1710 edition of The British Apollo , which attributes the term to "the country people" ("The Country People call this the Hunters-Moon.") The names became traditional in American folklore , where they are now often popularly attributed to Native Americans . The Feast of the Hunters' Moon is a yearly festival in West Lafayette, Indiana , held in late September or early October each year since 1968. In 2010

200-562: A book on Native American culture published in 1882, Richard Irving Dodge stated: There is a difference among authorities as to whether or not the moons themselves are named. Brown gives names for nine moons corresponding to months. Maximillian gives the names of twelve moons; and Belden, who lived many years among the Sioux, asserts that "the Indians compute their time very much as white men do, only they use moons instead of months to designate

250-475: A film adaptation of the book Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flower Moon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flower_Moon&oldid=1223355556 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

300-582: A full moon, whereas the study conducted by the public hospitals in Australia found that they were less likely. The symbol of the Triple Goddess is drawn with the circular image of the full moon in the center flanked by a left facing crescent and right facing crescent, on either side, representing a maiden, mother and crone archetype. Historically, month names are names of moons ( lunations , not necessarily full moons) in lunisolar calendars . Since

350-636: A list of full moon names that it said "were named by our early English ancestors as follows": Winter Moons: Moon after Yule, Wolf Moon, Lenten Moon Spring Moons: Egg Moon, Milk Moon, Flower Moon Summer Moons: Hay Moon, Grain Moon, Fruit Moon Fall Moons: Harvest Moon, Hunter's Moon, Moon before Yule It also mentioned blue moon . These were considered in some quarters to be Native American full moon names, and some were adopted by colonial Americans . The Farmers' Almanac (since 1955 published in Maine, but not

400-421: A phase angle of 4° and one of 0°, and that this increase is greater for the rougher-surfaced highland areas than for the relatively smooth maria . As for the principal mechanism of the phenomenon, measurements indicate that the opposition effect exhibits only a small wavelength dependence: the surge is 3-4% larger at 0.41 μm than at 1.00 μm. This result suggests that the principal cause of the lunar opposition surge

450-410: A result of the non-circularity of the Moon's orbit. See New moon for an explanation of the formula and its parameters. The age and apparent size of the full moon vary in a cycle of just under 14 synodic months , which has been referred to as a full moon cycle . When the Moon moves into Earth's shadow , a lunar eclipse occurs, during which all or part of the Moon's face may appear reddish due to

500-455: A strong coherent backscatter effect is required to explain the high albedos at radar wavelengths. On Earth, water droplets can also create bright spots around the antisolar point in various situations. For more details, see Heiligenschein and Glory (optical phenomenon) . The existence of the opposition surge was described in 1956 by Tom Gehrels during his study of the reflected light from an asteroid . Gehrels' later studies showed that

550-625: A supernumerary one, which they term the lost moon; and then begin to count as before." Carver gave the names of the lunar months (starting from the first after the March equinox ) as Worm, Plants, Flowers, Hot, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Travelling, Beaver, Hunting, Cold, Snow. Carver's account was reproduced verbatim in Events in Indian History (1841), but completely different lists were given by Eugene Vetromile (1856) and Peter Jones (1861). In

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600-472: Is between the months and moons, is in itself sufficient to render the whole statement questionable. My experience is that the Indian, in attempting to fix on a particular moon, will designate it by some natural and well-known phenomenon which culminates during that moon. But two Indians of the same tribe may fix on different designations; and even the same Indian, on different occasions, may give different names to

650-444: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Full moon The time interval between a full moon and the next repetition of the same phase, a synodic month , averages about 29.53 days. Because of irregularities in the moon's orbit, the new and full moons may fall up to thirteen hours either side of their mean. If the calendar date is not locally determined through observation of

700-436: Is full only at the instant when waxing ends and waning begins. For any given location, about half of these maximum full moons may be visible, while the other half occurs during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon. As the Moon's orbit is inclined by 5.145° from the ecliptic, it is not generally perfectly opposite from the Sun during full phase, therefore a full moon is in general not perfectly full except on nights with

750-481: Is mostly restricted to this plane of reference . Lunar eclipses happen only when the full moon occurs around either node of its orbit (ascending or descending). Therefore, a lunar eclipse occurs about every six months, and often two weeks before or after a solar eclipse , which occurs during a new moon around the opposite node. In Buddhism, Vesak is celebrated on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month, marking

800-671: Is no strong evidence for effects on human behavior around the time of a full moon. They find that studies are generally not consistent, with some showing a positive effect and others showing a negative effect. In one instance, the 23 December 2000 issue of the British Medical Journal published two studies on dog bite admission to hospitals in England and Australia. The study of the Bradford Royal Infirmary found that dog bites were twice as common during

850-473: Is not an indigenous idea, but borrowed from the whites. Jonathan Carver's list of purportedly Native American month names was adopted in the 19th century by the Improved Order of Red Men , an all-white U.S. fraternal organization. They called the month of January "Cold moon", the rest being Snow, Worm, Plant, Flower, Hot, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Travelling, Beaver and Hunting moon. They numbered years from

900-683: Is noted in the dates of Passover and Easter in Judaism and Christianity, respectively. Passover falls on the full moon on 15 Nisan of the Hebrew calendar. The date of the Jewish Rosh Hashana and Sukkot festivals along with all other Jewish holidays are dependent on the dates of the new moons. In lunisolar calendars, an intercalary month occurs seven times in the 19 years of the Metonic cycle , or on average every 2.7 years (19/7). In

950-550: Is particularly pronounced on regolith surfaces of airless bodies in the Solar System . The usual major cause of the effect is that a surface's small pores and pits that would otherwise be in shadow at other incidence angles become lit up when the observer is almost in the same line as the source of illumination. The effect is usually only visible for a very small range of phase angles near zero. For bodies whose reflectance properties have been quantitatively studied, details of

1000-412: Is so named because the reflected light from the Moon and Mars appear significantly brighter than predicted by simple Lambertian reflectance when at astronomical opposition . Two physical mechanisms have been proposed for this observational phenomenon: shadow hiding and coherent backscatter. The phase angle is defined as the angle between the observer, the observed object and the source of light. In

1050-799: The Hebrew calendar this is noted with a periodic extra month of Adar in the early spring. Before the days of good street lighting and car headlights, several organisations arranged their meetings for full moon, so that it would be easier for their members to walk, or ride home. Examples include the Lunar Society of Birmingham , several Masonic societies, including Warren Lodge No. 32 , USA and Masonic Hall, York , Western Australia, and several New Zealand local authorities , including Awakino , Ohura and Whangarei County Councils and Maori Hill and Wanganui East Borough Councils. Opposition surge The opposition surge (sometimes known as

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1100-513: The Rayleigh scattering of blue wavelengths and the refraction of sunlight through Earth's atmosphere . Lunar eclipses happen only during a full moon and around points on its orbit where the satellite may pass through the planet's shadow. A lunar eclipse does not occur every month because the Moon's orbit is inclined 5.145° with respect to the ecliptic plane of Earth; thus, the Moon usually passes north or south of Earth's shadow, which

1150-433: The opposition effect , opposition spike or Seeliger effect ) is the brightening of a rough surface, or an object with many particles , when illuminated from directly behind the observer. The term is most widely used in astronomy , where generally it refers to the sudden noticeable increase in the brightness of a celestial body such as a planet , moon , or comet as its phase angle of observation approaches zero. It

1200-495: The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival . The "harvest moon" (also known as the "barley moon" or "full corn moon") is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date. The "hunter's moon" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "harvest moon" cites

1250-420: The Moon because shadows vanish. It is a poor time for other observations because the bright sunlight reflected by the Moon, amplified by the opposition surge , then outshines many stars. There are eight phases of the moon, which vary from partial to full illumination. The moon phases are also called lunar phases . These stages have different names that come from its shape and size at each phase. For example,

1300-399: The Sun and the object are close to opposition from the viewpoint of the observer), this intrinsic brightness is usually close to its maximum. At a phase angle of zero degrees, all shadows disappear and the object is fully illuminated. When phase angles approach zero, there is a sudden increase in apparent brightness, and this sudden increase is referred to as the opposition surge. The effect

1350-509: The birth, enlightenment, and the death of the Buddha. In Arabic, badr (بدر ) means 'full moon', but it is often translated as 'white moon', referring to The White Days , the three days when the full moon is celebrated. Full moons are traditionally associated with insomnia (inability to sleep), insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic ) and various "magical phenomena" such as lycanthropy . Psychologists, however, have found that there

1400-521: The case of coherent backscatter, the reflected light is enhanced at narrow angles if the size of the scatterers in the surface of the body is comparable to the wavelength of light and the distance between scattering particles is greater than a wavelength. The increase in brightness is due to the reflected light combining coherently with the emitted light. Coherent backscatter phenomena have also been observed with radar . In particular, recent observations of Titan at 2.2 cm with Cassini have shown that

1450-476: The case of the Solar System, the light source is the Sun, and the observer is generally on Earth. At zero phase angle, the Sun is directly behind the observer and the object is directly ahead, fully illuminated. As the phase angle of an object lit by the Sun decreases, the object's brightness rapidly increases. This is mainly due to the increased area lit, but is also partly due to the intrinsic brightness of

1500-427: The crescent moon is 'banana' shaped, and the half-moon is D-shaped. When the moon is nearly full, it is called a gibbous moon. The crescent and gibbous moons each last approximately a week. Each phase is also described in accordance to its position on the full 29.5-day cycle. The eight phases of the moon in order: The date and approximate time of a specific full moon (assuming a circular orbit) can be calculated from

1550-497: The first lunar month after the winter solstice could be called the Wolf, Quiet, Snow, Cold, Chaste or Disting Moon, or the Moon of Little Winter. For the last lunar month Conway offered the names Cold, Oak or Wolf Moon, or Moon of Long Nights, Long Night's Moon, Aerra Geola (Month Before Yule), Wintermonat (Winter Month), Heilagmanoth (Holy Month), Big Winter Moon, Moon of Popping Trees. Conway did not cite specific sources for most of

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1600-465: The following equation: where d is the number of days since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 in the Terrestrial Time scale used in astronomical ephemerides ; for Universal Time (UT) add the following approximate correction to d : where N is the number of full moons since the first full moon of 2000. The true time of a full moon may differ from this approximation by up to about 14.5 hours as

1650-571: The full moon, thus lengthening the time in the evening when there is enough twilight and moonlight to work to get the harvest in. Various 18th and 19th century writers gave what were claimed to be Native American or First Nations moon names. These were not the names of the full moons as such, but were the names of lunar months beginning with each new moon . According to Jonathan Carver in 1778, "Some nations among them reckon their years by moons, and make them consist of twelve synodical or lunar months, observing, when thirty moons have waned, to add

1700-587: The full moons of autumn. Lunar eclipses occur only at a full moon and often cause a reddish hue on the near side of the Moon . This full moon has been called a blood moon in popular culture. The "harvest moon" and the "hunter's moon" are traditional names for the full moons in late summer and in the autumn in the Northern Hemisphere , usually in September and October, respectively. People may celebrate these occurrences in festivities such as

1750-446: The harvest moon occurred on the night of the equinox itself (some 5 1 ⁄ 2 hours after the moment of equinox) for the first time since 1991, after a period known as the Metonic cycle . All full moons rise around the time of sunset. Since the Moon moves eastward among the stars faster than the Sun, lunar culmination is delayed by about 50.47 minutes (on average) each day, thus causing moonrise to occur later each day. Due to

1800-467: The high lunar standstill , the harvest and hunter's moons of 2007 were special because the time difference between moonrises on successive evenings was much shorter than average. The moon rose about 30 minutes later from one night to the next, as seen from about 40° N or S latitude (because the full moon of September 2007 rose in the northeast rather than in the east). Hence, no long period of darkness occurred between sunset and moonrise for several days after

1850-597: The individual tribal groups they were supposedly associated with. Haddock supposes that certain "Colonial American" moon names were adopted from Algonquian languages (which were formerly spoken in the territory of New England), while others are based in European tradition (e.g. the Colonial American names for the May moon, "Milk Moon", "Mother's Moon", "Hare Moon" have no parallels in the supposed native names, while

1900-669: The introduction of the solar Julian calendar in the Roman Empire, and later the Gregorian calendar worldwide, people no longer perceive month names as "moon" names. The traditional Old English month names were equated with the names of the Julian calendar from an early time, soon after Christianization , according to the testimony of Bede around AD 700. Some full moons have developed new names in modern times, such as " blue moon ", as well as "harvest moon" and "hunter's moon" for

1950-528: The name of November, "Beaver Moon" is supposedly based in an Algonquian language). Many other names have been reported. These have passed into modern mythology, either as full-moon names, or as names for lunar months. Deanna J. Conway's Moon Magick: Myth & Magick, Crafts & Recipes, Rituals & Spells (1995) gave as headline names for the lunar months (from January): Wolf, Ice, Storm, Growing, Hare, Mead, Hay, Corn, Harvest, Blood, Snow, Cold. Conway also gave multiple alternative names for each month, e.g.

2000-529: The names she listed, but some have gained wider currency as full-moon names, such as Pink Moon for a full moon in April, Long Night's Moon for the last in December and Ice Moon for the first full moon of January or February. In Hinduism, most festivals are celebrated on auspicious days. Many Hindu festivals are celebrated on days with a full moon night, called the purnima . Different parts of India celebrate

2050-416: The new moon at the beginning of the month there is the potential for a further twelve hours difference depending on the time zone. Potential discrepancies also arise from whether the calendar day is considered to begin in the evening or at midnight. It is normal for the full moon to fall on the fourteenth or the fifteenth of the month according to whether the start of the month is reckoned from the appearance of

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2100-407: The new moon or from the conjunction. A tabular lunar calendar will also exhibit variations depending on the intercalation system used. Because a calendar month consists of a whole number of days, a month in a lunar calendar may be either 29 or 30 days long. A full moon is often thought of as an event of a full night's duration, although its phase seen from Earth continuously waxes or wanes, and

2150-475: The opposition effect – its strength and angular extent – are described by two of the Hapke parameters . In the case of planetary rings (such as Saturn's ), an opposition surge is due to the uncovering of shadows on the ring particles. This explanation was first proposed by Hugo von Seeliger in 1887. A theory for an additional effect that increases brightness during opposition is that of coherent backscatter. In

2200-410: The part that is sunlit. This is affected by such factors as the angle at which light reflected from the object is observed. For this reason, a full moon is more than twice as bright as the moon at first or third quarter, even though the visible area illuminated appears to be exactly twice as large. When the angle of reflection is close to the angle at which the light's rays hit the surface (that is, when

2250-479: The same effect could be shown in the moon's brightness. He coined the term "opposition effect" for the phenomenon, but the more intuitive "opposition surge" is now more widely used. Since Gehrels' early studies, an opposition surge has been noted for most airless solar system bodies. No such surge has been reported for bodies with significant atmospheres. In the case of the Moon , B. J. Buratti et al. have suggested that its brightness increases by some 40% between

2300-435: The same festival with different names, as listed below: Most pre-modern calendars the world over were lunisolar , combining the solar year with the lunation by means of intercalary months . The Julian calendar abandoned this method in favour of a purely solar reckoning while conversely the 7th-century Islamic calendar opted for a purely lunar one. A continuing lunisolar calendar is the Hebrew calendar . Evidence of this

2350-423: The same moon. Thus, an Indian of the middle Plains will to-day designate a spring moon as "the moon when corn is planted;" to-morrow, speaking of the same moon, he may call it "the moon when the buffalo comes." Moreover, though there are thirteen moons in our year, no observer has ever given an Indian name to the thirteenth. My opinion is, that if any of the wild tribes have given conventional names to twelve moons, it

2400-472: The same publication as the Maine Farmers' Almanac ) continues to print such names. Such names have gained currency in American folklore . They appeared in print more widely outside of the almanac tradition from the 1990s in popular publications about the Moon. Mysteries of the Moon by Patricia Haddock ("Great Mysteries Series", Greenhaven Press, 1992) gave an extensive list of such names along with

2450-545: The seasons, each answering to some month in our calendar." Then follows a list of twelve moons with Indian and English names. While I cannot contradict so positive and minute a statement of one so thoroughly in a position to know, I must assert with equal positiveness that I have never met any wild Indians, of the Sioux or other Plains tribes, who had a permanent, common, conventional name for any moon. The looseness of Belden's general statement, that "Indians compute time like white people," when his only particularization of similarity

2500-556: The time of Columbus's arrival in America. In The American Boy's Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (1918), Daniel Carter Beard wrote: "The Indians' Moons naturally vary in the different parts of the country, but by comparing them all and striking an average as near as may be, the moons are reduced to the following." He then gave a list that had two names for each lunar month, again quite different from earlier lists that had been published. The 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac published

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