Simon's Blog - Blue Moon

If you've got your eyes to the skies tomorrow night, you might think you're just looking at an ordinary moon but it is in fact a rare astrological treat.

You'll be witnessing our first blue moon since 2012, although you might be disappointed to find out that it won't be any bluer than a normal moon, it's name simply refers to the extra full moon that takes place over a calendar year.

And make the most of it as there won't be another one until 2018.

Meanwhile here are some of the other interesting moon shots that have turned up in my meridianweather@itv.com inbox.

Robert Olley took this photo in Reading of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus.

Sid Saunders in St Leonards-on-Sea sent in this picture of a Full Strawberry Moon. He explained "the name comes from when the Algonquin Tribes knew it as a signal to start to gather ripening fruit in the month of June".

And Steven Cottrell spotted an actual red moon in the sky above Thatcham earlier in the month.

And finally you might have heard of the cow that jumped over the moon but here's a rare shot taken by Nigel Harper at Aylesbury Vale of the cow who used the moon as a football for heading practise!