Is everyone ready for the superest super moon this weekend? Why is this the supermoon weekend? The full moon is the nearest it gets to the earth in a year.
From earthsky.org:
…[A]stronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Two years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used the term supermoon, which we’d never heard before. Last year, we heard this term again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. Last month’s full moon – May 24-25, 2013 – was also a supermoon. But the June full moon is even more super! In other words, the time of full moon falls even closer to the time of perigee, the moon’s closest point to Earth. The crest of the moon’s full phase in June 2013, and perigee, fall within an hour of each other
Coming to a sky near you this weekend. Hopefully skies will be clear..
Thanks, Moon!
A great night to howl at the moon! Wow.
Doing my best to howl, Steve.
Really beautiful behind my house tonight.
Too bad the mosquitoes of Bull Run were also out howling. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
GRRRRRRRRR!
If you have ever been to the Washington Revels, held every December, you would see the origins of what we celebrate as Christmas. People in the northern latitudes celebrated Yule–the longest night or the Winter Solstice. They were happy for the Winter Solstice since it meant that the nights would get shorter and the days would get longer. Yule was being celebrated long before Christmas came into being and it has been absorbed into the celebration of Christmas in order to bring the pagans to the Christian faith.
Don’t you go to Revels annually?