As the summer winds down, skygazers can enjoy the last days with views of the super blue moon and the rings of Saturn.
refers to the second full moon in a calendar month. Usually a full moon happens once a month, but if August were as short as February, April, June, September or November, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
, meanwhile, does not indicate a literal change in size, either. Rather, on the evenings of Aug. 29-31, our lunar neighbor will appear as if it has swollen by 17% and glows 30% brighter. That’s because the full moon phase coincides with the point on its orbit closest to Earth, resulting in what appears to be a three-day full moon. NYC’s peak is actually Aug. 30 when the supermoon will also appear very close to Saturn in the night sky. This week’s supermoon is“Because it's an elliptical orbit, there are times when it is closer to us,” said Bart Fried, executive vice president of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York City. “During those periods where we're relatively closer to the moon, it will look larger, but there's nothing actually different about the moon at all.”
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