Each month, the moon makes us all go a little crazy.

Take next Tuesday for instance. On that night there will be a full moon. It’s called the Hunter’s Moon, which is the full moon AFTER the Harvest moon, which is the full moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox, either before the Equinox or after it. (This year the Harvest Moon occurred fairly early, on Sept 9, about 12 days before the Equinox, and the Hunter’s Moon will occur about 17 days after it.) Both the Harvest and Hunter’s moons are special in that, due to the elliptical orbit of the moon around the earth, they rise in the sky about 20 minutes earlier than other full moons, making moonrise and sunset happen concurrently.

But this isn’t just any Hunter’s Moon. It’s also what some folks call a Blood Moon. That’s because there will be an eclipse of this moon that will be partial in the Eastern U.S. and total in the Western U.S. and all the way to Hawaii. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s atmosphere throws a shadow on the moon, turning it various shades of copper, orange and red.

And it’s not just any Blood Moon, oh, God, no. As was previously reported, this is one in a series of four Blood Moons, each spread out six lunar months from the next, from April 2014 to October 2014 to April 2015 to October 2015. It’s a fairly rare event called the Tetrad which some folks fear has apocalyptic significance. But let’s just try to stay calm. Either that’s a bunch or hooey or, at worst, we all have six more months. Let’s just use the less dramatic synonym “Red Moon.”

This full moon will NOT also be a Super Moon. You may have heard this term used to describe a full moon that occurs when it is very close to the earth. (Technically speaking, its distance has to be within 90% of its closest point in its elliptical orbit around Earth.) The proximity makes the full moon truly look Super, about 10% larger than the average full moon. This makes astrologers go crazy and predict all sorts of geological disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis. Which in turn makes true scientists go nuts and remind everyone that the term Super Moon was invented by an astrology kook and that folks should use the true astronomical term, “a moon in perigee-syzygy.” Regardless, next week’s full moon will be a rather large one, but it won’t meet the definition of Super Moon.

So let’s take a step back look at all this rationally. Next Tuesday night we’ll have a spectacular moon. It won’t be quite super-sized, and it won’t be a harbinger of the end of the world.

But it will be a Red Hunter’s Moon in Total Eclipse. That’s pretty cool, and that’s enough.

Unless, of course, you wanna get completely insane and talk about the Moon Wobble…