Post by Owen on Apr 8, 2020 4:11:46 GMT
1 ~~~ What is a Pink Supermoon? | Super Pink Moon 2020 ~~~
A "pink supermoon” (or “super pink moon”) occurs on Tuesday, April 7.
This particular supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of the year, because it is full closest to the point of perigee.
Perigee makes a full moon appear up to 7% larger and 15% brighter than a typical full moon.
Traditionally, any full moon that occurred in April was called a Pink Moon.
As for “supermoon,” the astronomical term is perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system.
Syzygy happens every time there is a full moon, and perigee is when the Moon comes closest to Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit around the Earth.
On April 7, perigee (11:08am AZ/PT) occurs just over 8 hours before syzygy (7:35pm AZ/PT), and so we get a Pink Supermoon.
The Moon rises due east at 6:42pm, here in Flagstaff, Arizona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x305BFcTH6s ~ 2:45 ~ Lowell Observatory ~ Apr 6, 2020 ~
A "pink supermoon” (or “super pink moon”) occurs on Tuesday, April 7.
This particular supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of the year, because it is full closest to the point of perigee.
Perigee makes a full moon appear up to 7% larger and 15% brighter than a typical full moon.
Traditionally, any full moon that occurred in April was called a Pink Moon.
As for “supermoon,” the astronomical term is perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system.
Syzygy happens every time there is a full moon, and perigee is when the Moon comes closest to Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit around the Earth.
On April 7, perigee (11:08am AZ/PT) occurs just over 8 hours before syzygy (7:35pm AZ/PT), and so we get a Pink Supermoon.
The Moon rises due east at 6:42pm, here in Flagstaff, Arizona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x305BFcTH6s ~ 2:45 ~ Lowell Observatory ~ Apr 6, 2020 ~
