Celestial Quirk Occurring Over US — Are You in the Right Spot to Catch the Black Moon?

Celestial Quirk Occurring Over US — Are You in the Right Spot to Catch the Black Moon?

THE SIGNAL

A quirk of the calendar will be giving stargazers a treat Saturday night — but only in certain areas of the country.
Thanks to a disconnect between the calendar and the lunar cycle, states in the West, Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii will get two new moons in November.
To paraphrase Creedence Clearwater Revival: “There’s a black moon on the rise.”

A “black moon” is the term used when there are two new moons in a given calendar month — because the new moon can’t be seen by humans unaided.
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