Supermoon on Monday

[Tamara (Homes Down Under)]

This will be an event that won't happen again until 2034...

I don't know whether our weather will be behaving itself to make it visible.......if it does I may just go down to the Port Noarlunga jetty to watch this.. A good reason to take the children outside and get them interested in something more than a square screen!

 

 

South Australians will be closer to the moon on Monday evening than they have been for 70 years

 

 

 

Adam Langenberg, Sunday Mail (SA)

November 12, 2016 10:00pm

SOUTH Australians will be closer to the moon on Monday evening than they have been for almost 70 years.

 

A supermoon event means Earth’s only permanent natural satellite will be just 356,500km away at about 10pm SA time — the closest since 1948 and the closest we will get to it until 2034.

The earth is expected to be bathed in 30 per cent more moonlight than usual during the full moon event.

Adelaide Planetarium lecturer Paul Curnow said all South Australians should have a good vantage point for the rare event.

“It will be viewable from pretty much everywhere and I’d urge people to get outside and have a look,” Mr Curnow said.

The supermoon will be visible from about 7.32pm in SA.Monday’s supermoon will be the second of three this year — there was one in October and there will be another next month.

“People make a big deal about it but it’s not really anything special,” Mr Curnow said.

“It’s a very common phenomenon, every month the moon is very close.

“It’s very hard to pick the difference between what they call the supermoon and a regular full moon.”

The supermoon will be visible from moon rise on Monday (about 7.32pm in SA) to moonset at 6.30am on Tuesday — giving budding astronomers ample chance to get a glimpse.

But the moon will be at its closest at about 10pm.

[John Browning]

I think the photo above is, in fact a red moon event.

 

As Curnow says the whole thing isn't that big a deal given that the moon looks even bigger every night when it rises (and the image is magnified by the earth's atmosphere). On the other hand SA is a wonderful place to observe the sky you just need to pick a spot away from city lights.

 

JB

[snifter]

We didn't see it. I kind of remembered and saw it when I pulled the curtains and then the cloud came over and I forgot to poke my nose out the door later on when it was meant to be at its best