The Moon will look slightly larger and bright on Monday night, known as a supermoon.
The supermoon of October is the first of the three this year. This happens when a full moon is close Earth In its orbit. According to NASA, it makes the moon 14% larger and up to 30% compared to the unconscious moon of the year. The subtle difference occurs a few times in a year, sometimes coincides with other astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses.
“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 very high in the sky, there is nothing relative to it that you guess how big it looks,” the pits said.
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.
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