Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Supermoon

I love this image, taken a few days ago.
Photo by Ira Serkes, Berkeley, May 5, 2012
A supermoon is “the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, or perigee, leading to the technical name for a supermoon of the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system".

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