Saturday Night Lights: Spot The 'Supermoon'
Close to midnight, the moon will be 17,000 miles closer to the Earth than usual, so grab the camera, the telescope — or just howl at this huge moon.
Grab your telescopes and cameras Saturday nights and look to the heavens — or just howl at the biggest moon you'll see this year. According to astronomers, this year's “Super Moon” will boast more super qualities than usual. “The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today. This Super Moon (a phrase coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) will appear especially large because the moment of perigee—when the moon is closest to the Earth in its monthly rotation—will coincide with the appearance of a perfectly full moon, Smithsonian points out. During last year’s Super Moon on March 19, 2011, for comparison, the perigee and full moon were…
