FULL MOON

August’s full moon will be a supermoon and a blue moon.

KSAT viewers captured photos of a rare super blue moon — the biggest and brightest moon this year — overnight.

There are two kinds of Blue Moons, according to NASA, and neither has anything to do with the actual color of the Moon.

The first of two full supermoons in August lit up the South Central Texas sky Tuesday evening.

Head outside Tuesday evening to see the first of two August full moons

There are two kinds of Blue Moons, according to NASA, and neither has anything to do with the actual color of the Moon.

A full moon takes place when the moon and the sun are on opposite sides of the Earth

The name "Wolf Moon" was given to January's full moon since this time of year is typically when wolves are active and can be heard howling on cold nights.

As spooky season swings into high gear, the Full Hunter’s Moon is slated to occur this weekend in the South Central Texas sky

This year, a blue moon will fall on Halloween -- and it’s the first blue moon we’ll experience since the last one on March 31, 2018. A blue moon, in case you’re wondering, isn’t blue in color at all — unless you’re talking about the other blue moon, which we’ll fill you in on shortly. A blue moon, by the most popular definition, according to meteorologist Paul Gross, is when two full moons appear in a single month. “We will have full moons on Oct. 1 and 31, so that means that we’ll have a blue moon on Halloween,” Gross said. The full moon to follow on the last day of the month then becomes a Halloween blue moon.