Super Moon
by Cheryl Baxter
Title
Super Moon
Artist
Cheryl Baxter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Supermoon
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, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. Wikipedia
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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, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. Wikipedia
Explore: Full moon, New moon
Supermoons are caused by the shape of the Moon's orbit, which is not a perfect circle, but an ellipse, or oval, shape. farmersalmanac.com
Explore: Orbit of the Moon
The term supermoon is not used within the astronomical community, which use the term perigee-syzygy or perigee full/new moon. Wikipedia
Explore: Apsis, New moon
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August 19th, 2014
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