Friday, November 4, 2016

In November earthlings will be able to admire the Supermoon – FOCUS

In November earthlings will be able to admire the Supermoon

Photo: National Geographic Russia

In the night from 13 to 14 November, the Supermoon will be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual.

the Last time this phenomenon could be observed in January 1948, the next time – 2034.

this is reported by TSN with reference to National Geographic.

the Nature of this rare phenomenon associated with the elliptic shape of the satellite.

One side of the moon is called perigee and it 48 280 kilometers closer to our planet than the other side – apogee. When the Earth, Moon, Sun were in line from the perigee facing our planet, then we have a phenomenon called a perigee-Supermoon or sirisia.

to see this phenomenon better, away from the night lights of the city.

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