The D.C. area, weather permitting, has a chance to see a rare "full super blue moon" Wednesday night. The last time this happened was in 2018.

A rare "super blue moon" will be lighting up the night sky at the tail end of August 2023. While blue moons usually look like ordinary full moons, they sometimes can give off a blueish tint. Pixabay ...

You can see it at night. It's always there," Nichols said. If it's clear, look toward the southeastern sky sometime after 7:30 p.m. and you'll start to see the blue super moon.

said Masi. “I’m always excited to admire the beauty of the night sky,” he said, especially when it features a blue supermoon. The first supermoon of 2023 was in July.

The "blue" designation doesn't have anything to do with its color, however. That just means it's the second full moon in the month. The two don't occur simultaneously very often.

The Super Blue Moon rose over the eastern horizon in the Aquarius constellation just after sunset tonight at around 7:10 p.m. EDT (2310 GMT). It then set just before sunrise on Thursday, Aug. 31 ...

Fortunately, however, it still offers a good reason to raise your eyes to the sky. A “black moon” isn ... within the same ...

This will be the closest full moon of the year, just 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) or so away. That’s more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) closer than the Aug. 1 supermoon.