‘Super’ Super Moon to Make an Appearance Saturday
Full moon will be closest to Earth in nearly 20 years.
Grab your telescopes and cameras and look to the heavens Saturday night. That’s when we’re in for another “Super Moon.” Astronomers are saying that this Super Moon will be even more super than usual. “The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today. Planning to step outside to take in the Super Moon Saturday night? Be sure to post your photos to this story and say where they were taken. We'd love to create an awesome Super Moon photo gallery that features shots taken by Patch readers from all over the Tampa Bay area! This Super Moon (a phrase coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) will appear especially large because the moment of …
Greg Giordano
9:12 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
My family made the trek outside to see the beautiful sight. I was reminded of the description of nighttime in "Twas the NIght Before Christmas": "The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below." While we obviously had no snow the effect of the Moon's reflected light was nonetheless brilliant. more ›