![]() ![]() Look to the east! The moon will appear low on the eastern horizon as it rises. "The average person can't really tell the difference between a supermoon and an ordinary moon, so it's not quite as super a phenomenon as the term makes it sound."Īll right, sir. But throw in that eclipse - now you’re talking.įraknoi recommends that you start watching when the moon rises, around 7 p.m. “Supermoon is not an astronomical term, but was invented by the media to make things more exciting sounding," says Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, and one of our go-to guys on things astronomical. When a full moon coincides with lunar perigee, it's called a supermoon, because the moon should appear slightly larger than average. Lunar perigee means the moon's orbit will take it as close to the Earth during this lunar month as it's going to get (we hope) - a mere 222,000 miles away.
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