This little stubby is a complement to the blue moon article in our May Print edition. Want to know where to pick it up? Visit www.pickup.readitnews.com. Or you can view the article here.

Do the Internet

Our first full moon of May is on the 2nd. Our blue moon for 2007 is at 7:04pm Arizona time on May 31. If you’re in London it’s on June 30 and if in Auckland it’s July 30. If you want to know why, then visit Dr. Harper’s website at www.obliquity.com/astro/bluemoon.html. For more detail on how a Sky & Telescope magazine writer inadvertently invented our new blue moon folklore, go to http://www.skytonight.com/. I found the Wicca info at www.witchvox.com (type “blue moon” into the search bar). For more on the Gregorian calendar, try www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html, Wikipedia, and

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/GregorianCalendar.html, where you can get the cool Julian-to-Gregorian conversion formula JD=367Y-INT(7(Y+INT((M+9)/12))/4-INT(3(INT((Y+(M-9)/7)/100)+1)/4)+INT(275M/9)+D+1721028.5+UT/24. Remember to subtract 8 hours to get Arizona time.