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SUPERMOON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-display-author no-title block\">\n<div class=\"block-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">Almanac.com<\/div>\n<div class=\"block-content\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almanac.com\/users\/catherine-boeckmann\">Catherine Boeckmann<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-separator\">\u00a0February 11, 2019<\/div>\n<h1>The\u00a0<strong>Full Moon for February<\/strong>\u00a0is the best supermoon of 2019. Traditionally, this Moon was called the\u00a0<strong>Snow Moon<\/strong>. Find out why\u2014plus, see more Moon facts and\u00a0folklore.<\/h1>\n<h3>THE FEBRUARY \u201cSUPER SNOW\u201d\u00a0MOON<\/h3>\n<p>February\u2019s full Moon peaks on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, February 19, at 10:53\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">A.M.<\/span><span class=\"caps\">EST<\/span><\/strong><strong>\u00a0(15:53\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UTC<\/span>)<\/strong>, but will appear full the night before and after its peak to the casual\u00a0stargazer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0will also be a so-called \u201csupermoon,\u201d which means the Moon is at its closest point in its orbit to\u00a0Earth.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the February\u2019s full Moon is the\u00a0<strong>nearest, largest, and brightest full Moon of the year<\/strong>!\u00a0 Technically, it\u2019s the second of three supermoons\u00a0to occur in 2019 (January, February,\u00a0March).<\/p>\n<p>*  <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p>In ancient times, people across Europe and Native Americans used the Moon to track the seasons.\u00a0In the lunar calendar, names were often given to each month\u2019s Moon.\u00a0(If this sounds odd to you, remember that our current calendar is based on the Sun and the solar\u00a0year!)<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the Moon we see in February is called the\u00a0<strong>Snow Moon\u00a0<\/strong>due to the typically heavy snowfall of February. On average, February is the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>\u2019s snowiest month, according to data from the National Weather\u00a0Service.<\/p>\n<p>Other Full Moon names include: the \u201c<strong>Shoulder to Shoulder Around the Fire Moon<\/strong>\u201d (from the Wishram people of the Pacific Northwest), the \u201c<strong>No Snow in the Trails Moon<\/strong>\u201d (Zuni, of the Southwest), and the \u201c<strong>Bone Moon<\/strong>\u201d (Cherokee, of the Southeast). The Bone Moon meant that there was so little food that people gnawed on bones and ate bone marrow\u00a0soup.<\/p>\n<p>*  <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<header id=\"main-content-header\" class=\"clearfix\"><strong>Do supermoons\u00a0truly appear\u00a0brighter?\u00a0<\/strong>Technically, yes. Practically, it depends on your point of comparison. The supermoon\u2019s diameter is indeed about 7% greater than an ordinary full Moon and 14% greater than a full Moon when it\u2019s at its furthest point in its orbit to Earth (a\u00a0\u201cmicromoon\u201d).And a supermoon exceeds the brightness of an ordinary Moon by\u00a015%! When compared to a micromoon, the supermoon is 30%\u00a0brighter!<\/header>\n<header class=\"clearfix\">\n<h1>*  <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/h1>\n<h1>\u00a0FULL MOON FOR FEBRUARY 2019<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"region\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system no-title odd first last block-count-7 block-region-content block-main\">\n<div id=\"article-feature\" class=\"two-66-33 at-panel panel-display clearfix print-only\">\n<div class=\"region region-two-66-33-first\">\n<div class=\"region-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-subhead field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-_custom_display\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">THE FULL SNOW MOON &amp; SUPERMOON<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Full Moon for February is the best supermoon of 2019. Traditionally, this Moon was called the Snow Moon. Find out why\u2014plus, see more Moon facts and folklore.<br \/>\nTHE FEBRUARY \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1830,1827,1420,1829,1561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}