Super Moon 23-6-13

[jonnopfc]

This image was taken on last sunday night using my galaxy note camera held up to a 20mm eyepiece.

[Pyrodave]

Great shot seeing it was taken handheld

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Very nice image.

(Tried to get a joke in there about once in a blue moon, but couldnt think of one)

[JamesF]

Ooh, a blue supermoon. I wonder how rare that is?

James

[JamesF]

Answering my own question, there are seven Blue Moon events every nineteen years, so there's a 1 in 33 chance that any given Full Moon is blue. There is one "Supermoon" every fourteen Full Moons, so a 1 in 14 chance. The chances of a Blue Supermoon are therefore about 1 in 462 which means there would be one every thirty-seven years (just over), so perhaps a twice-in-a-lifetime event.

I admit here and now that I was awful at probability theory. For reasons I've never understood I just couldn't get my head around it. This may therefore be completely wrong

James

[Scott]

It never ceases to amaze me the beautiful pics that can be achieved with "bare bones" equiptment. This is another one. well done jonno.

Answering my own question, there are seven Blue Moon events every nineteen years, so there's a 1 in 33 chance that any given Full Moon is blue. There is one "Supermoon" every fourteen Full Moons, so a 1 in 14 chance. The chances of a Blue Supermoon are therefore about 1 in 462 which means there would be one every thirty-seven years (just over), so perhaps a twice-in-a-lifetime event.

I admit here and now that I was awful at probability theory. For reasons I've never understood I just couldn't get my head around it. This may therefore be completely wrong

James

James, Am I right in thinking that a blue moon is the second full moon in a calender month?....(wouldn't have a clue about your probability ability but it sounds sound to me) say that drunk

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Did it really nibble at you so much you had to work it out?

[JamesF]

James, Am I right in thinking that a blue moon is the second full moon in a calender month?

Indeed so.

James

[JamesF]

Did it really nibble at you so much you had to work it out?

The only point of questions to which you don't know the answer is to find the answer

James

[jonnopfc]

Thanks all for the comments as to the blue moon that might well be down to the moon filter I was using lol