Every month the moon completes one full orbit around the earth. Every year the earth rotates around the sun a single time. A lunar eclipse can occur two to four times in a year when the moon is directly in the earths shadow so that no light from the moon can reach it. A lunar eclipse will occur only during a full moon. A solar eclipse will occur around twice a year when the moon is directly in between the sun and the earth outlining the moon in the suns rays. A solar eclipse will occur only during a new moon. A blue moon is the extremely rare second full moon of any month. A blue moon occurs around once every three years. However, around once every 19 years, there will be a second blue moon in a single year. On this night around one hundred and eighty thousand children are born. One-hundred-and-eighty-thousand blue moon children.