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In the widely used Gregorian calendar, there are 12 months (the word month is derived from moon ) in a year, and normally there is one full moon each month, with the date of the full moon falling back by nearly one day every calendar month. Therefore, about 12.37 lunations (365.24 days divided by 29.53 days) occur in a tropical year. There are about 365.24 days in a tropical year. One lunation (an average lunar cycle) is 29.53 days. Owing to the rarity of a blue moon, the term 'blue moon' is used colloquially to mean a rare event, as in the phrase 'once in a blue moon'. An example in a sentence: 'My sister lives in Alaska, so I only see her once in a blue moon.' The phrase 'once in a blue moon' is also used idiomatically, which means once after a long time. Without enough almanacs to see the correct pattern, he conjectured the wrong rule for 'blue moons', which led to the modern colloquial misunderstanding that a blue moon is a second full moon in a single solar calendar month, with no link to the order it occurs in a season. The author of a March 1946 article in Sky & Telescope attempted to decipher the traditional practice of the editors of the Maine Farmers' Almanac by examining old issues of the almanac.

This happens every two to three years (seven times in the Metonic cycle of 19 years).

The 'blue moon' reference is applied to the third full moon in a season with four full moons, thus correcting the timing of the last month of a season that would have otherwise been expected too early. The term has traditionally, in the Maine Farmer's Almanac, referred to an 'extra' full moon, where a year which usually has 12 full moons has 13 instead.

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