March 19th, 2011 was the first super moon in 18 years.
NASA says, the Moon "will be around 17,000 miles (27,359 km) closer than usual as it rounds Earth in its elliptical orbit." Don't get too excited; that's still 221,567 miles (356,578 km) from Earth, so it's not exactly "close." The effect of this change of distance is that the Full Moon will be appear 14% bigger than usual.
The kids, Kevin and I went outside and looked at it. It was beautiful and you could see more detail but I think we expected it to look quite a bit larger. We took a bunch of pictures of it and had a couple turn out pretty good!
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Wow, beautiful!
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Cool picture...but if you tint it green it would look like a watermelon...ok I know I am crazed.
Great photos. My photos of the moon never turn out so I didn't bother. I knew someone would have a great photo. It was pretty big and bright at our house. At MIL's just 10 miles away they said it started out orange, not sure about that though. Anyway it was a fun evening. Glad your family enjoyed it too.
We looked for it, with no luck. It think it was too cloudy. Great pictures!
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That's great that you and your family went out to see the super moon. Sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for visiting me! Have a great week.
It WAS so beautiful. It was yellow hear in the desert, with all the dirt hazeyness, but it was still amazing! Great Pics!
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That is so neat- love your photos!
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Great pictures. I didn't know that the huge moon was called a supermoon!
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Yay, isn't this amazing? You taking a peek at the night sky made me think of our kiddos when they were small. We drove to the mountains to see a Halley's and Hale-Bopp in the late 90s. That was so much fun!
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Beautiful when it's that close isn't it? I saw it myself that night. So awe inspiring.
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Great photos! Too cloudy here to see the moon, but the next night it came up and was so bright it was eerie! Thanks for visiting Cranberry Morning! So nice to have you along. :-)
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Thanks for stopping by my Blog. I just love the photos of the moon. It was beautiful wasn't it?
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Right? I thought it was going to be sooo much bigger too. Looked the same as it always did to me. Thanks for stopping by my site, I'm a new google friend.
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It was my birthday on the night of the "super" moon. I agree with everything you said about its mildly disappointing display.
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With a bit of trivia and photo this post is just enough to be informative. The enlarged photo seems like a view from a telescope. Nice one.
your photos turned out FANTASTIC!! i wish i had discovered your blog sooner so i could have taken a look :)
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