Sunday, November 13, 2016

The ‘biggest’ moon of the century is in the pipeline – NU.nl

The so-called supermaan is for the eye 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter, reports Weeronline. It comes to the largest supermaan since 1948. the Weerplaza has calculated that the next time that the moon, exactly this position is reached until november 25, 2034.

Weeronline expects that the phenomenon in Limburg’, with a bit of luck against the evening is to see. To the supermaan to admire it is best to immediately around the maanopkomst to 17.21 hours to the northeast to look.

Because they are close to objects, such as a tree or a building, it seems the moon is much larger. Tuesday morning around 07.17 am the supermaan. Also, it seems the moon is suddenly quite a bit larger.

Monday at 12:21 pm the earth and the moon are closest to each other. Then the distance is 'only' 356.509 km. Only in 2034, the moon so close to the earth. The greatest possible distance to the earth is 406.700 km.

Observatory Sonnenborgh in Utrecht tempers the joy on his site: it is almost every year that the full moon is when the moon in its orbit closer to earth. “The supermaan of november 14, is one of the largest. But many astronomers hate the term supermaan: so very super is it all not and that’s the term coined by an astrologer doesn’t help.”

By: ANP

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