Supermoon Returns
Posted Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 7:30 AM
“Oh, is it that time again? The time for everyone to overhype the “Supermoon”?
Yup.
You’ve probably heard about this: on June 23, the full Moon will be the biggest and brightest of the year, so it’s called the Supermoon. Let me be clear: While this is technically true, you’d never notice the difference in size or brightness by eye. The full Moon will look pretty much like every other full Moon you’ve ever seen. Which is to say, big, bright, beautiful, and completely worth your time to outside and see! But Supermoon? Not so much.
Flying Around the Earth
Here’s the deal. The Moon orbits the Earth once every month or so. As it does so, the geometry—the angles between the Moon, Earth, and Sun—change, so we see a different part of the Moon lit every night. Once per orbit the Moon is roughly opposite the Sun in the sky, so the half facing the Earth is completely lit, and we say the Moon is full. This blog post I wrote (complete with awesome video) should help.”
Good Morning Gloucester 
I don’t know about that. I saw the super moon last year, and it definitely was bigger than your average full moon. I’ll take measurements Sunday night and compare it against the following full moon and give a full reporting then, but I bet the super moon will be bigger.
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