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November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years (nationalgeographic.com)
On Monday, November 14th, you may be able to see the biggest and closest supermoon Earth has seen since 1948. A "supermoon" is a full moon that "coincides with the lunar orb's closest approach to Earth, or perigee." National Geographic explains how you can experience one of the best lunar spectacles in decades: This month, the moon officially reaches perigee at 6:21 a.m. ET (11:23 UT) on November 14, when it will be just 221,524 miles from our planet, as measured from the center of both Earth and the moon. The moon reaches its full phase only two and a half hours later, at 8:52 a.m. ET (13:52 UT) on November 14. Earth hasn't been buzzed this close by a full moon since January 26, 1948, when our lunar companion was a mere 30 miles closer than this month's supermoon. Enjoy the sky show while it lasts, because the full moon won't get this close to us again until November 25, 2034. And the absolute closest full moon to Earth this century will occur on December 6, 2052, when our celestial neighbor will be just 221,472 miles away. Globally, the best time to catch this sky event is just after your local sunset on November 14, as the silvery orb rises in the east. For North Americans, the lunar disk will appear to be nearly equally full and impressive on the nights of November 13 and 14, so if you get clouded out on the first night, you'll have another chance to catch the epic sky show. The best view will be in the early morning close to dawn, as the moon sets in the west before the sun rises in the east. By the numbers, the November full moon will appear to be 7 percent larger than average and nearly 15 percent brighter.
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So what? The difference won't visible to the naked eye. This kind of fake 'news' doesn't belong here.
It's only 9 or 10% bigger than a typical full moon.
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the moon will come crashing down on washington dc, ending life as we know it.
The engorged moon will cover 7/8 the sky and the increased gravitational pull will yank out Trump's hair implants
The gif was made to show libration (the slight rocking of the moon's face side to side). But it also shows the variance in the moon's apparent size during the near and far parts of its orbit around the Earth (perigee and apogee respectively). When full moon coincides with the nearest point in its orbit (as in the animation), it's called a supermoon.
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Bigger in real life than on TV.
Biggest moon ever
No, the global warming effect is when the Earth looks just like the Moon.
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Or at least until famine induced by global warming leads to nuclear annihilation.
Here in the Midwest, 11/14 will be cloudy. Just like it is for the vast, vast majority of any astronomical events that are supposed to be visible. I haven't been able to catch sight of any of the annual meteor showers in years. We did see a couple of comets back in the late '90s and Northern lights a few years later but, by and large, the rest of anything that happens in the sky around here is obscured by clouds. Not that I won't be checking this out. Just in case.
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So it works the same way as cows?
The moon will be so close to the Earth that it will appear as big as the sun in the daytime sky! Amazing!
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uh oh. I have a feeling that unless the moon is destroyed, the president elect might transform into zaru. That orange glow of his, are really his super saiyan ki unleashed.
7% "larger"? I thought slashdot was a technical site. I don't know what "larger" means. Larger apparent diameter (arc length) or area? ? Sloppy. Same for "brighter". Does that mean per unit area or integrated light received? And no context: what is the human eye's ability to discriminate larger and brighter? But hey, thanks for the time info.
There will have been 425 "supermoons" in the 21st century. Roughly 4 per year (though this isn't an 'averages' thing...)
Of those 425, 125 of them will be closer than Monday's approach, though the next closer approach will not occur until 2034.
The closest of these in the 21st century will be in 2052. THAT one will be interesting because it will be 356,429 meters from Earth; the absolute minimum distance the moon can perigee with Earth is 356,400 meters - so that one will be less than 100 feet from closest possible approach ever.
I expect to be alive for both of them.
By the way, from farthest possible apogee to nearest possible perigee is a difference of only 14% in distance. In width it is not nearly that. And while it is considerably brighter, the eye is generally not capable of making a distinction between a brighter moon and dimmer one (outside of eclipses.)
So, cool? Hell yeah. Worth all the hype the media is throwing at it? Hell no - it distracts from the coolness that is the normal perigee/apogee variations.