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Tonight sees a Supermoon, the best you'll see for 28 years. A supermoon is a full-moon when the moon is nearest to the Earth.
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Damn - it's pouring with rain in Sydney. :roll:
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Clear skies and cold weather in Norway. Beautiful moon. Just explained to my children why the moon is so big.
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Likewise, except for the Norway bit
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Likewise, except for the Norway and the children bits. :wink:

The moon appears to be very bright and also very white here.
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Having posted this I nearly forgot to go and have a look :roll: It doesn't look obviously closer than normal, but it certainly is very bright.
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misted slightly when i went to kip but i woke up about midnight and she was shining bright and clear. lovely, but i have to say i've seen far bigger moons, caused by atmospherics of course. would love to some one like today's APOD tho!
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The Moon didn't look any bigger to me either.
I think I read somewhere that the Moon's apparent size would increase by 14%.
If my calculations are correct, the apparent diameter would then only increase by 6%, hence it wouldn't appear obviously bigger.
Then again, my calculations could be wrong :roll:
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The moon looked bigger to me, but then again I've just moved into a third-floor flat, on top of a hill ... :wink:
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We like the moon because it is close to us.

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