Super moon to be seen Saturday night

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Super moon to be seen Saturday night
QMI Agency
First posted: Friday, July 11, 2014 09:59 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:12 AM EDT
Saturday night's super moon will be the first of three this summer, NASA says.
Other super moons, or perigee moons, are expected Aug. 10 and Sept. 9. In August, the moon will be closer to the Earth than on the other dates.
Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory said super moons aren't rare even though they get a lot of attention.
"Full moons occur near perigee every 13 months and 18 days, so it's not all that unusual," he said in a blog post. "In fact, just last year there were three perigee moons in a row, but only one was widely reported."
Chester said a "moon illusion" will make the moon look larger when it is low-hanging near the horizon.
"I guarantee that some folks will think it's the biggest moon they've ever seen if they catch it rising over a distant horizon, because the media will have told them to pay attention to this particular one," Chester said.
The moon rises behind the street lamp in St. Petersburg June 22, 2013. The largest full moon of the year, called the "supermoon," will light up the night sky this weekend. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

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Debut summer "supermoon" hangs in the summer sky
Reuters
First posted: Sunday, July 13, 2014 11:14 AM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 13, 2014 11:36 AM EDT
A "supermoon" rose above cities from Los Angeles to London on Saturday night, the first of three times this year the full moon will orbit nearer the earth and appear unusually large and bright.
The supermoon is technically known as a "perigee moon," and occurs when the moon is full as it reaches perigee, the point of its orbit closest to the earth, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a statement. It looks largest when it's closest to the horizon - an optical illusion.
"However, if it gets people out and looking at the night sky and maybe hooks them into astronomy, then it's a good thing," Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory, said on NASA's website.
A 2013 supermoon was 14 percent bigger and 30 percent more luminous than the average full moon of that year, NASA said.
Two additional supermoons are expected in 2014, one on Aug. 10 and another on Sept. 9, NASA said. August' s supermoon is expected to be the most remarkable of the year.
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