The Biggest Supermoon in Years is Coming Saturday Night

[A Guy]

This Saturday evening, take a look at the night sky and you might see something special. The moon will make its largest, most stunning appearance of the year—an event known to scientists as “the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system” and to the popular skywatching public simply as the “supermoon.” As one of the most spectacular supermoons in years, the moon will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than when it is on the far side of its orbit.

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A Guy

 

[profdlp]

Thank goodness you posted that quoted section. For a minute there I thought maybe you were planning to drop trou' on us.

Actually, I just got in from taking the dogs for a late night walk and noticed that the moon, though not full yet, was looking pretty spectacular tonight. I'll have to make sure and have a look Saturday night.

 

[DustSailor]

Thank goodness you posted that quoted section. For a minute there I thought maybe you were planning to drop trou' on us.

:roflmao:

Should be grande! The .real. moon, of course...

 

[luke127]

Thank goodness you posted that quoted section. For a minute there I thought maybe you were planning to drop trou' on us.

:roflmao:

Should be grande! The .real. moon, of course...

How could you make a fake moon lol

 

[DustSailor]

Thank goodness you posted that quoted section. For a minute there I thought maybe you were planning to drop trou' on us.

:roflmao:

Should be grande! The .real. moon, of course...

How could you make a fake moon lol

Plastic surgery of course!

 

[Joan Archer]

It all depends on the weather whether it's seen or not, the way our weathers been lately might be too much cloud to see anything.

 

[luke127]

It all depends on the weather whether it's seen or not, the way our weathers been lately might be too much cloud to see anything.

That would suck to miss such an awesome moon over in aussieville aka Australia we have a High Pressure system keeping everything clear so we will definitely be seeing that moon.

 

[boohbah]

partly cloudy in cornwall , but hopefully it will be clear enough to see.
thanks for the heads up bill.

 

[seekermeister]

Sort of reminds me of an old Outer Limits episode, in which a scientist determined that super nova or solar flare had struck the Earth on the far side, by looking at the moon's size and brightness (much larger and brighter than this), and spent the night preparing for the end of the Earth. He was wrong, because after an extreme storm, everything was flooded.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/61856/outer-limits-inconstant-moon

 

[DustSailor]

thats pretty

well done Julian

 

[profdlp]

...over in aussieville aka Australia we have a High Pressure system keeping everything clear so we will definitely be seeing that moon.

You can see the moon from Australia?

Cool!

 

[profdlp]

partly cloudy in cornwall , but hopefully it will be clear enough to see.
thanks for the heads up bill.

Doesn't appear to be the "head" from this angle.

Oh, well - I stink at astronomy anyway...

 

[seekermeister]

thats pretty

well done Julian

Who ever said that TV is healthy?

 

[boohbah]

thats pretty

well done Julian

Who ever said that TV is healthy?

TV as in transvestism?
why the interest you considering dabbling?

info for brits:
the moon will appear larger and brighter for the night of sunday 6 May in the UK and 5 May in the US.

 

[Joan Archer]

That clip can only be seen in the states seeker. Weather has cleared up today the sun keeps making an appearance from behind white clouds an only a few light grey ones about.

 

[DustSailor]

Joan, here is a handy tool I use: Weather.com. I think you will get the 'partly cloudy' deal. From what I can tell, that website works in the UK, although I am sure the UK has some better ones of its own. Seems to predict the weather quite well, I would say a 9/10 or more.

 

[seekermeister]

That clip can only be seen in the states seeker. Weather has cleared up today the sun keeps making an appearance from behind white clouds an only a few light grey ones about.

Sorry, I don't have a solution for that. Too bad, because it is not a clip, but a full episode.

 

[Joan Archer]

Joan, here is a handy tool I use: Weather.com. I think you will get the 'partly cloudy' deal. From what I can tell, that website works in the UK, although I am sure the UK has some better ones of its own. Seems to predict the weather quite well, I would say a 9/10 or more.

Thanks, to be honest I'm not that bothered with the weather there's nothing we can do about it so I just take each day as it comes.

 

[smarteyeball]

Well it was certainly big and extremely bright.

Went to bed about 3:00am , not overcast so I had a perfect view. Just glancing around, the difference in illumination was very noticeable.

 

[seekermeister]

Didn't think about it, until just now (11:40), but while it was quite nice, it didn't look especially different to me. Maybe I've just seen so many super moons, that I'm accustomed to them.