The supermoon of 2012 is ended, but the joys of moongazing are not. Even though Saturday night's lunar performance was the biggest and brightest of the day, the views are almost as pleasant anytime around the satiated moon — tonight, in support of pattern.
Photographs of the supermoon sight streamed away from home ended online channels, counting Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, blog postings and efficient slideshows (such as our own roundup). They moreover streamed into msnbc.Com's FirstPerson in-box. I've place in concert a selection of 10 submissions at this juncture.
Advertise AdChoices The kind of supermoon we motto very last night isn't exactly a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. The phenomenon, moreover renowned as a perigee moon, can be seen on every occasion the satiated moon occurs while it's nearby the close position of its elliptical orbit around Earth. Last night, the moon was emphatically 221,802 miles away from Earth, or as regards 15,000 miles closer than regular.
The moon's bony size was 14 percent wider than it is on limit distance, and it was 30 percent brighter than smallest amount moonshine.
