Time to gaze at the ‘Black Moon’ in Hyderabad

Time has come for the casual star gazer and amateur astronomers in Hyderabad to look-up at the December night sky and spot the Black Moon! Yes, you heard it right! It’s not the typical idiom of ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ but it is the foreboding sounding the Black Moon, which will be visible across the chilly Hyderabadi sky in the coming



two-days.

“Yes this is a Black moon is quite rare. Usually, two New Moons (Amavasya) occur in a single calendar month. The second New Moon (Amavasya) is called Black Moon. And, similarly, if two Full Moon (Purnima) occur in one single Month then the Second Moon is called Blue Moon,” explains founder secretary, Planetary Society of India (PSI), Raghunandan Kumar.