Wednesday's lunar event won’t happen again for another 14 years. Here’s how to see it.
Talk about something happening once in a blue moon — Wednesday night’s lunar event won’t be repeated for another 14 years.
Supermoons are slightly more common than blue moons, NASA says. While about 25% of all full moons are supermoons, just 3% of full moons are blue moons. That’s why the phrase “once in a blue moon” is used to describe a rare event. And the length of time between super blue moons is even more irregular. On average it’s 10 years, according to NASA, but it sometimes stretches as long as 20 years. After tonight, we won’t see another until we get a pair of super blue moons in January and March 2037.
Related: Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller draws a link between moon landing and remote workThe super blue moon will be officially full at 9:36 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, Aug. 30. That is when the moon will be 180 degrees from the sun, or completely opposite the sun in the sky over the Earth, Space.com explains.
If you want to catch the moon looking especially huge, it’s recommended that you catch the moon either rising in the east in the evening or setting in the west in the early morning. This is because when the moon is nearest to the horizon, a “moon illusion” makes it seem bigger. Photographers can exaggerate this illusion by taking pictures of the moon low on the horizon, using a long lens and having buildings, mountains or trees in the frame, NASA says.
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