{"id":2977,"date":"2024-08-20T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2024-08-20T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:18:48","slug":"global-moonstruck-blue-supermoon-mesmerizes-accra-and-international-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Global moonstruck: Blue supermoon mesmerizes Accra and international viewers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-20_062135872-696x393-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-20_062135872-696x393-1.png 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-20_062135872-696x393-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A blue moon happens once every two to three years \u2013 that\u2019s where the saying comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographers from around the world have been busy capturing a lunar lightshow \u2013 the blue supermoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A supermoon occurs when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A blue moon is even rarer, happening when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The blue supermoon as seen in Accra captured with an amateur lens when it lighted up the sky around the world on Monday night. VIDEO ATTACHED BELOW<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dust from wildfires in North America may give the moon a red glow; blue moons aren\u2019t actually blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The supermoon seen from Friston in East Sussex. Pic: Barry Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a supermoon, the moon appears up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter compared with when it is furthest away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moon seen over Istanbul\u2019s historical Galata Tower. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this supermoon, the next will be on 18 September, followed by 17 October and then finishing with a final supermoon on 15 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Dortmund, in Germany. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Monday\u2019s blue supermoon is rare, September\u2019s coincides with a partial lunar eclipse \u2013 another sight worth watching out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 as either a new or full moon that occurs when the moon is within 90% of its closest approach to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blue moon happens once every two to three years \u2013 that\u2019s where the saying comes from. Photographers from around the world have been busy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}