Yesterday's Supermoon

This month's full moon came the closest to Earth that it has been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory Monday night. The full supermoon peaked this morning at 8:52 a.m. EST (1352 GMT), but it will still look "super" for about a day after its maximum. So if you haven't seen it yet, there's still some time to go check it out.

Photographer BG Boyd captured the supermoon at its largest while rising Monday morning (Nov. 14) over Tucson, Arizona. This month's full moon came the closest to Earth that it has been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory. The difference in size between the supermoon and other full moons can be difficult to see — it only appears about 14 percent larger than usual.

So what’s a “Supermoon”? It’s not a real astronomical term—it was actually coined by an astrologer, but in the popular vernacular it’s when there’s a full Moon within a few hours of the Moon being closest to Earth. The Moon orbits the Earth on an elliptical path, so sometimes it’s closer to us than other times. Monday, the Moon reached its closest point to Earth (called perigee) at approximately 6:20 AM Eastern U.S. time. At this point, the center of the Moon was just a hair under 356,508 kilometers from the center of the Earth.



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http://www.space.com/34721-skywatchers-supermoon-photos-november-2016.html