On Saturday, Santa Clarita residents are expected to experience a celestial rarity known as the Black Moon, according to Newsweek. 

The Black Moon is scheduled to take place on Saturday night and is set to only happen in Western time zones of the United States. 

For this weekend’s Black Moon, the monthly applies because a lunar cycle lasts 29.5 days, having two new moons in one month is rare but inevitable if the first new moon falls on the first or second day of the month.

For those who follow Pacific or Mountain standard time, the New Moon is expected to occur just before midnight in their local time zone, and so they would have two New Moons in November, according to Darren Baskill, a physics and astronomy lecturer at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, in a Newsweek article. 

For much of the U.S. and the world, the second new moon is set to occur just after midnight on Sunday, Dec. 1.

However, in the Pacific, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaiian time zones, the new moon will occur late in the evening of November 30, marking it as the second new moon in November.

States that are that set to experience this black moon include:

• Mountain Standard Time: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming
• Pacific Standard Time: California, Idaho, Oregon, parts of Nevada, Washington
• Alaska Standard Time: Alaska
• Hawaiian Standard Time: Hawaii

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