Got up early Sunday morning and captured this image with my trusty old Bushnell scope and a Canon t3i DSLR.
A supermoon is a full moon (or a new moon) that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee syzygy of the Earth–Moon–Sun system. For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon
My hope is to take some more full moon shots each month of 2018 and compare their relative sizes in a future post.
Click on the image for a better view!
A supermoon is a full moon (or a new moon) that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee syzygy of the Earth–Moon–Sun system. For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon
My hope is to take some more full moon shots each month of 2018 and compare their relative sizes in a future post.
Click on the image for a better view!
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