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‘Supermoon’ coming tonight
July 12, 2014, 2:23 PM ET
Reuters
The first of summer’s three “supermoons” will light the skies Saturday.
The full moon will look unusually big and bright, since will be in one of this year’s closest approaches to Earth (the distance varies, since our satellite has an elliptical orbit).
Native Americans gave this full moon the nickname “full buck moon”, since it was the time when male deer typically begin to grow their antlers.
As usual, your mileage may vary — the brightness of the moon depends on cloud cover and other factors. The phenomenon is not rare — every year there are four to six “supermoons.”
If something does get in the way of your “supermoon,” there will be others on Aug. 10 and Sept. 9. The August one will be the closest of the year.
CNET offered a few tips on how to take photographs of the moon.
And this site allows you to select your location to check the exact time for the moonrise and the moonset up to the minute.
– Claudia Assis
July 12, 2014, 2:23 PM ET
Reuters
The first of summer’s three “supermoons” will light the skies Saturday.
The full moon will look unusually big and bright, since will be in one of this year’s closest approaches to Earth (the distance varies, since our satellite has an elliptical orbit).
Native Americans gave this full moon the nickname “full buck moon”, since it was the time when male deer typically begin to grow their antlers.
As usual, your mileage may vary — the brightness of the moon depends on cloud cover and other factors. The phenomenon is not rare — every year there are four to six “supermoons.”
If something does get in the way of your “supermoon,” there will be others on Aug. 10 and Sept. 9. The August one will be the closest of the year.
CNET offered a few tips on how to take photographs of the moon.
And this site allows you to select your location to check the exact time for the moonrise and the moonset up to the minute.
– Claudia Assis
Ray
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