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This weekend’s blue moon is also a micromoon (but won’t be blue and isn’t smaller)

Rob Beschizza
May 29, 2026
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This weekend’s Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon’s apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit. The best moment to catch it, writes EarthSky, is just before 4 a.m. Sunday morning in Central Daylight Time.

It won’t be so small you’ll have trouble finding it, assuming the weather coopera…

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