Also known as Hunter's Moon or Frost Moon, it will shine brighter than usual.
Don't forget to turn back the clock 1hr before this Sun :)
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Also known as Hunter's Moon or Frost Moon, it will shine brighter than usual.
Don't forget to turn back the clock 1hr before this Sun :)
It wasn’t always so. More than 200 years ago, the full moon signaled the movement of the Comanche along the southern leg of the Comanche Trail. As accomplished horsemen traveling a network of seasonal routes south of Comancheria—the Comanche empire encompassing much of the territory now comprised of West Texas, the Panhandle, western Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Kansas—the Comanche crossed the Big Bend country in the waxing gibbous light on their way to the border territories of New Spain. Across the Rio Grande lay Spain’s vulnerable missionary efforts, which sought to transform local inhabitants into citizens of the Spanish state and the Catholic Church. The mission communities, with their haphazard presidio defenses, were no match for the Comanche, who, in brief but decisive forays, would raid and loot the settlements, often burning them down. The full moon, at its best in a pre-industrial sky, illuminated the transfiguration, casting harsh light on colonies in scattered ruins as the Comanche made colonists into wives or trade slaves, and relieved the settlements of their rations, their weapons, and their horses. By the mid-1800s, Anglo pioneers had also become targets of the moonlit Comanche raids and invented the term “Comanche Moon.”
http://www.texashighways.com/culture...-comanche-moon
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-...eaning-2017-11
The Beaver Moon peaks this weekend at 1:22 a.m. ET on Saturday.
The phenomenon is also called a Frost Moon, but both names describe the same thing: the full moon.
In fact, these two labels join dozens of other names for this phase of Earth's largest satellite. The terms change from month to month:
Pokey! :)
Whirleeeee!
Hahaha --- (in my Beavis & Butthead voice) --- she said BEAVER!!!!
A lot of beavers there?
I was expecting something really dirty.
Discovered three clocks I forgot to set back.
Why do I have so many clocks?
Power outage! Now half the clocks I just set are blinking at me. :(