G'morning Earl, 

And thanks for posting up these excellent sky reports.  As you may 
recall,  this paragraph gets me going....

 ET> IS THE JULY 31ST FULL MOON REALLY "BLUE"?

 ET> On Saturday evening, July 31st, a full Moon will rise for the second
 ET> time this month (the first time was on July 2nd). Many people call the
 ET> second full Moon in a calendar month a "blue Moon" and use the
 ET> expression "once in a blue Moon" to mean something that occurs only
 ET> rarely. While the latter meaning can be traced back centuries, the
 ET> former definition is much newer -- and it's wrong....

 > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1310_1.asp

....because the local newspaper's tides, sun and moon tables give 
the following times for full moon here in Auckland:

Jul 2nd at 2310hrs NZST (12 hours ahead of GMT)
Aug 1st at 0606hrs NZST
Aug 30th {at} 1424hrs NZST

This creates the interesting situation of a Blue Moon in North 
America being a month ahead of Australasia's Blue Moon,  because 
of antipodean time differences.

:-)
 
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