Crescent Moon Blue Background

[Shawna Erholm]

Asof 2024, the public display of the Kkbayraq flag is illegal by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China.[3] Uyghurs and other East Turkistanis in the diaspora fly the flag as their ethnic flag.

In modern times it is popularly used as a symbol of the East Turkestan independence movement and is claimed by the East Turkistan Government in Exile to be the national flag of an independent East Turkestan.[4]

The light blue colour (background) is taken from the colour of the sky and is a predominant colour in Turkic culture that represents the sky, essentially the blue represents Turkic peoples. The crescent represents the notion of being victorious (un-defeatable) and is not necessarily an Islamic symbol, in-fact it was the Turks that introduced the crescent into the Islamic world. The star represents the Turkic nation, and is also found on the flag of the White Hun (Hephthalite) Empire and various other Turkic empires and states.[1]

Islamic symbols are found on the flags of 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East and North Africa. In Bahrain, the national flag features five white triangles, symbolizing the Five Pillars of Islam. Algeria, Turkey, Brunei and Uzbekistan are some of the many countries that include an Islamic star and crescent on their national flag.

Buddhist or Hindu religious symbols appear on five national flags; in three of those cases, the symbols apply to both religions. The Cambodian flag depicts Angkor Wat, a temple historically associated with both Hinduism and Buddhism, while in Nepal, the flag features both Buddhist and Hindu symbols to represent the two predominant religious groups in the country. And in India, the blue chakra at the center of the flag holds symbolic meaning for both Hindus and Buddhists.

Only under certain atmospheric conditions. In the aftermath of the massive 1884 volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, a tremendous cloud of ash and dust was injected into the stratosphere (5 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface); this aerosol cloud caused both the moon and sun appear blue from many locations in the Northern Hemisphere for many months after the explosion.

And on September 24th, 1950, a 200-mile-wide swath of smoke from a series of smoldering fires in the forests of Northern Alberta in Canada cast an awesome pall over the Great Lakes, parts of New York State and Southern New England. The smoke produced an unusual midday darkness and caused the disk of the sun to shine in eerie hues of pink, blue and even purple!

To see the moon actually turn blue, requires either a massive volcanic eruption or a giant pall of airborne smoke (such as in 1950). But such events are few and far between . . . perhaps occurring only about half a dozen times per century. Calendrical blue moons are much more frequent, occurring (on average) about every 2.5 to nearly 3 years.

As the cycle of the phases of the moon lasts approximately one month, we typically experience 12 full moons each year. Many cultures have given distinct names to each month's full moon. 12 months, 12 full moons, 12 names. Simple right?

Well, not quite. Here's where the Blue Moon comes into the equation.

Blue Moons occur once every two to three years, according to NASA. As there are roughly 29.5 days between full moons, February will never experience a monthly Blue Moon as it only has 28 days in a common year and 29 in a leap year. Sometimes February doesn't have a Full Moon at all, this is known as a Black Moon, according to Time and Date.

According to NASA Science, other volcanic eruptions have also been known to cause blue moons including the 1983 eruption of El Chichon volcano in Mexico and the eruptions of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

Explore Blue Moons in a nutshell with ESA's useful Blue Moon infographic. Check out this cool image of a Blue Moon captured by the European weather satellite MSG-3 just before the moon disappeared out of sight. Discover the difference between types of full moons with NASA.

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To make a crescent moon wreath you really only need a wire wreath form, wire cutters, and floral wire. Beyond that, you can collect different embellishments to make the wreath fit your own style. This wreath benefits from the round wire wreath form, rather than a grapevine wreath. You are able to cut and manipulate the wire to form the crescent shape. Thankfully you can find wire wreath forms, leaves, florals, and all the other supplies needed to make this wreath at the dollar store or online. I will link the supplies I used below.

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The next full Moon will be on Tuesday afternoon, August 1, 2023, appearing opposite the Sun in Earth-based longitude at 2:32 PM EDT. This will be on Wednesday morning from the India Standard Time zone eastward to the International Date Line. The Moon will appear full for 3 days around this time, from early Monday morning to early Thursday morning.

This will be a supermoon. Different publications use different thresholds for deciding which Moons qualify as "super." In 2023, some publications recognize four supermoons (the full Moon in July, the two full Moons in August, and the full Moon in September), while others recognize only the two brightest supermoons, this full Moon and the next at the end of August. 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 perigee, its closest approach to Earth. Since we can't see new Moons (except when they block the Sun), what has caught the public's attention in recent decades are full supermoons, as these are the biggest and brightest full Moons of the year.

The Maine Farmer's Almanac began publishing "Indian" names for full Moons in the 1930s and these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in August the Algonquin tribes in what is now the northeastern USA called this the Sturgeon Moon, after the large fish in the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water that were more easily caught this time of year. Other names reported for this Moon include the Red Moon, the Corn or Green Corn Moon, the Barley Moon, the Herb Moon, the Grain Moon, and the Dog Moon.

Every full Moon is a holiday in Sri Lanka. In 2023 there are two Esala Poya holidays, Adhi Esala Poya on July 3 and this full Moon, Esala Poya, both commemorating Buddha's first sermon after reaching nirvana, which started Buddhism. This sermon became the core of Buddhist teachings and includes the four noble truths. In addition, with this full Moon the Buddhist Monks start Vassa, the annual three-month retreat during the rainy season.

In many traditional lunisolar and lunar calendars the full Moons fall on or near the middle of the lunar months. This full Moon is in the middle of the sixth month of the Chinese calendar, Av in the Hebrew calendar, and Muharram in the Islamic calendar. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic year and one of the four sacred months during which warfare is forbidden.

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