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Monday night brings a supermoon, the first of the three, slightly larger and bright this year.
This happens when a complete moon Is close to Earth In class.
NASA It is said that it is 14 percent larger than the unconscious moon of the year and up to 30 percent bright.
This subtle difference occurs a few times annually, sometimes coincides with lunar eclipse.
“It’s not really very uncommon,” said Deric Pitts, the main astronomer with the Franklin Institute Philadelphia,
Everyone in the world can see a supermoon without special equipment if clear sky permit. But it can be difficult to understand the difference, especially if people have not regularly observed the moon at night.
“If you go out and simply see the moon when it is too much in the sky, there is nothing relative to it that you guess how big it looks,” Pitts said.
The full crop moon will increase in the UK this evening at around 18:20 GMT.
In the latest view, the Moon will pass through the Earth about 224,600 miles (361,459 km).
The nearest supermoon of the year is slate for November, followed by another in December.
Glasses continue with two lunar eclipses in 2026 North America, Asia And Australia in March, and one partially one in August Of americaAfrica and Europe.
The last supermoon in Britain was Beaver Moon, which was growing after 3.30 pm on November 15. This was the fourth of the year, although it was smaller than its earlier predecessors.
Dr, Senior Astronomy Manager of Royal Observatory Greenwich. Edward Blomer said: “The supermoon definition is not particularly strict.
“General rules that most people follow, although astronomers prefer to argue about it, it is that it is within 10 percent of its nearest approach to the Earth.”
Another definition for a supermoon is that it is within 360,000 kilometers of the Earth.