Full Moon Day

When is National Full Moon Day?

• "June 30th is National Full Moon Day!"

• July 20 -Moon Day (Lunar Landing in 1969)

Are there other Holidays related?

Yes! Take a Walk on the Moon Day : August 5

(Neil Armstrong's Birthday)

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What is this Holiday for?

To apprecipate the moon, it's beauty and what it has to offers the world.

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Origin of this Holiday?

Our research did not find the creator of this holiday, or the origin of this day. This holiday is referred to as a "National" day. However, we did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we didn't, this is still a holiday that is publicized to celebrate.

Here you can find the Next Full Moons Calendar for the next years. The time is in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) If your local time zone is currently on Daylight Saving time, please add one hour to the standard times listed in the Next Moon phases tables.

Full Moon dates 2011

Year Month Day Time wkDay

2011 Jan 19 21:21 Wed

2011 Feb 18 08:36 Fri

2011 Mar 19 18:10 Sat

2011 Apr 18 02:44 Mon

2011 May 17 11:09 Tue

2011 Jun 15 20:14 Wed

2011 Jul 15 06:40 Fri

2011 Aug 13 18:57 Sat

2011 Sep 12 09:27 Mon

2011 Oct 12 02:06 Wed

2011 Nov 10 20:16 Thu

2011 Dec 10 14:36 Sat

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Full Moon dates 2012

Year Month Day Time wkday

2012 Jan 09

2012 Feb 7

2012 Mar 8

2012 Apr 6

2012 May 6

2012 Jun 4

2012 Jul 3

2012 Aug 1

2012 Aug 31

2012 Sep 29

2012 Oct 29

2012 Nov 28

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Full Moon dates 2013

Year Month Day Time wkDay

2013 Jan 26 10:40pm

2013 Feb 25

2013 Mar 27

2013 Apr 25

2013 May 24

2013 Jun 23

2013 Jul 22

2013 Aug 20

2013 Sep 19

2013 Oct 18

2013 Nov 17

2013 Dec 17

Do people really celebrate this holiday?

You bet they do! Since a full moon occurs most every month, it give monthly excuses to host a moon party. Moon parties are held by groups, clubs and individuals who just love the moon.

How To Celebrate this holiday

1) - Plan A Moon Theme Party

First visit our party planning section where we help you decide the what, when, where and why's of planning a party.

2) - Meet for a midnight meal

Midnight meals are wicked! Eating meals by candlelight and moon light are all the rage for moon parties.

3) - Send Greetings - If your ready to get together with your

friends don't forget to invite them with fun Internet Invitations.

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Moon Names

Acknowledgements

Some of the Data are from the Planetary Systems Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Many neopagans hold a monthly ritual called an Esbat at each full moon, while some people practicing traditional Chinese religions prepare their ritual offerings to their ancestors and deities on every full and new moon.

Take a look at what the moon looks like today. The image is recreated many times per day so that it always represents the current appearance of the Moon. Click Here

......... in opposition with the Sun.

As seen from Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the earth (the near side) is almost fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round. Only during a full moon is the opposite hemisphere of the Moon, which is not visible from Earth (the far side), completely unilluminated.

The time interval between similar lunar phases—the synodic month—averages about 29.53 days. Therefore, in those lunar calendars in which each month begins on the new moon, the full moon falls on either the 14th or 15th of the lunar month. Because lunar months have a whole number of days, lunar months may be either 29 or 30 days long.

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Characteristics:

A full moon is often thought of as an event of a full night's duration. This is somewhat misleading, as the Moon seen from Earth is continuously becoming larger or smaller (though much too slowly to notice with the naked eye). Its absolute maximum size occurs at the moment expansion has stopped, and when graphed, its tangent slope is zero. For any given location, about half of these absolute maximum full moons will be potentially visible, as the other half occur during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon. Many almanacs list full moons not just by date, but by their exact time as well, usually in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Typical monthly calendars that include phases of the moon may be off by one day if intended for use in a different time zone.

Full moons are generally a poor time to conduct astronomical observations, since the bright reflected sunlight from the moon overwhelms the dimmer light from stars.

On 12 December 2008 the full moon occurred closer to the Earth than it has done at any time for the past 15 years.

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Folklore:

Full Moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic) and various "magical phenomena" such as lycanthropy. Psychologists, however, have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on human behavior around the time of a full moon.[5] 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 a full moon, whereas the study conducted by the public hospitals in Australia found that they were less likely.

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Calendars:

• The Hindu, Thai, Hebrew, Islamic, Tibetan, Mayan, Neo-pagan, Germanic, Celtic, and the traditional Chinese calendars are all based on the phases of the Moon. None of these calendars, however, begins its months with the full moon. In the Chinese, Jewish, Thai and some Hindu calendars, the full moon always occurs in the middle of a month. wikipedia

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