Supermoons

ThePlight
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A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

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Anyone here interested in these amazing sights? :smile:
http://www.unitarium.com/blog/articles/supermoon-dates

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  • lauraspberry
    lauraspberry Posts: 655 Member
    THANK YOU FOR THE PICS! I doubt that I'll see any of the next supermoons though :| I remember the first time I saw a supermoon, I didn't know that there was gonna be a supermoon that day and it was such a great sight since we were in the mountains then :heart:
  • ChrisM8971
    ChrisM8971 Posts: 1,067 Member
    bump to file those pictures :-)
  • adlace
    adlace Posts: 375 Member
    gotta love supermoons!
  • pauljsaunders
    pauljsaunders Posts: 79
    Beautiful pic's..... well worth keeping...
  • Mahihkan
    Mahihkan Posts: 162
    Very nice pics!
    Supermoons are incredible...


    This pic is one I find really impressive::::::

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    Is it photoshopped???? Possible. Yet it seems that no.....
    http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/478191/20130613/2013-supermoon-closest-approach-earth-peaks-june.htm#.UoeGLWTF34c



    Either ways, I would be totally hypnotized to see this! A once in a lifetime sight!
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    There was a supermoon a while back, and the moon was bright pink and looked huge. I was telling my friend how worried I was that the world might be ending, but he reminded me that if something huge was going on, then we would probably have heard about it. He also reminded me that he thinks I say ridiculously foolish things sometimes although I am one of his best friends and he loves me to death. It turns out that it was a supermoon, and I was just really stoned that night. :ohwell:
  • manny1991
    manny1991 Posts: 204 Member
    Awesome!!
  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    Romantic supermoons:

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    Luckiest runner ever (imho):

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    On CNN: (Might stretch a bit).
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    Brazil:
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    USA:
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    Greece:
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