by JohnD » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:17 pm
There is more beauty in heaven and earth, Christopher, than is dreamt of in your philosophy. But "Buck Moon"?
Allegedly so named by the Native American Peoples, so acknowledge that, but also that the Full Moon of July is also named Thunder Moon, Wort Moon, and Hay Moon from Old English/Anglo-Saxon, so recognsie that too, else APOD discriminates on ethnicity. And you wouldn't want that, would you? A name for the month's full moon is a complete invention, that every source I can find traces back to the Farmers Almanac (founded 1792).
But the beauty - one of the beauties - of science and it's daughter astronomy, is that with plenty of dispute and discussion, and imagination, any argument is based on facts. Facts and testable theories. So, lets test the theory that the July full moon is the Buck Moon. Let's ask someone living in the Southern Hemisphere. There it may be called the Wolf Moon, Old Moon or Ice Moon! Because there, it's Mid Winter!
And the photograph was taken by an Italian, Christian Fattinnnanzi, so what's the July Full Moon called in Italian? Ah! "Luglio luna piena"!
Which translates as "July Full Moon"
Buck Moon? BUSTED!
John
There is more beauty in heaven and earth, Christopher, than is dreamt of in your philosophy. But "Buck Moon"?
Allegedly so named by the Native American Peoples, so acknowledge that, but also that the Full Moon of July is also named Thunder Moon, Wort Moon, and Hay Moon from Old English/Anglo-Saxon, so recognsie that too, else APOD discriminates on ethnicity. And you wouldn't want that, would you? A name for the month's full moon is a complete invention, that every source I can find traces back to the Farmers Almanac (founded 1792).
But the beauty - one of the beauties - of science and it's daughter astronomy, is that with plenty of dispute and discussion, and imagination, any argument is based on facts. Facts and testable theories. So, lets test the theory that the July full moon is the Buck Moon. Let's ask someone living in the Southern Hemisphere. There it may be called the Wolf Moon, Old Moon or Ice Moon! Because there, it's Mid Winter!
And the photograph was taken by an Italian, Christian Fattinnnanzi, so what's the July Full Moon called in Italian? Ah! "Luglio luna piena"!
Which translates as "July Full Moon"
Buck Moon? BUSTED!
John