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Full moon dates for 2020, including October’s Blue Hunter’s Moon – Telegraph.co.uk
Full moons illuminate the sky every month, but why do they have different names?
This year, space fans may have seen July’s full moon turn a shade darker than usual, as the third penumbral lunar eclipse of 2020 took place.
When? July 5
August: Sturgeon Moon
Tribes in North America typically caught Sturgeon around this time, but it is also when grain and corn were gathered so is sometimes referred to as Grain Moon.
This full moon appears in the same month as the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks on August 12 and 13.
This year, a black moon (the third new moon in a se…
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