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Super Pink Moon visible tonight: Here's everything you need to know

07 Avril, 2020, 21:39 | Auteur: Therese Cote
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"Moons always rise in the East and set in the West - so follow this direction in your search", he explained.

SloohA comparison of the apparent size of a perigee moon, or "supermoon", and an apogee moon ("minimoon") as seen through Slooh's Half Meter Telescope at its Canary Islands Observatory in 2015.

As the skies have cleared up due to a lack of pollution due to the lockdown and the moon appears larger than usual, the surface is quite visible, which gives a great opportunity to learn the name of the craters.

You may have noticed the moon looking pretty full and bright lately.

April's Full Moon can also be known as the Egg Moon, the Paschal Moon or the Fish Moon. Each month's Supermoon has a name.

A Supermoon in popular culture is a full moon bigger and brighter than normal.

A super pink moon will appear.

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A supermoon commonly just happens yearly, when a moon synchronizes with the moon additionally going to the closest orbital factor to Earth, called a perigee.

The biggest and brightest supermoon of the year will appear in the night sky tomorrow, in what will be a treat for stargazers. "The April Moon takes this name from the 'Phlox, ' a plant which blossoms pink in April".

A supermoon on March 9, 2020 as seen from Haikou, China.

According to The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "A supermoon occurs when the moon's orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full".

Supermoons are typically about 14% brighter than other full moons.

"For 2020, the four full Moons from February to May meet this 90% threshold, with the full Moons in March and April almost tied". Eastern time on April 7. "A full moon is always a sight to see as the disk of the moon is fully illuminated for us to study in detail".

According to NASA, while tonight is the Super Pink Moon, the moon will appear full for about three days, from Monday night through Thursday morning.

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