Super Moon

[Boomer 33202]

I'm in Ottawa and expecting to see the super moon in about an hour, copied from the CBC web site.

 

The perigee and the full moon occur within a minute of each other Saturday night (at about 11:35 p.m. ET), and the moon will seem as much as 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons this year, NASA says.

 

Go outside and take a look, doesn't happen too often,

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

It'd clouded-over and raining here in Nova Scotia. Not good viewing. Luckily, I found a substitute Super Moon to soothe my inner-astronomer:

 

[Leber 1328]

Grrrrg! Our view in Ottawa is not as nice compared to the photos taken in Greece, India...

[dirkgently 1778]

I'm with Wrinkled, wasn't raining but too much cloud cover to see.

 

Oh well, try again next year.

[Athos 108589]

Cloud and fog in St. john's so no super moon here either. I do like WIT's alternative!!

[Dorinda Bloom 44036]

Strangely, I woke up around midnight and just wandered to the back deck and lo and behold to my surprise was an absolutely gorgeous and awe inspiring moon! I am fortunate enough to not have the trouble of light pollution where I am at so was able to really take in its splendour :)

[Malika Fantasy 144625]

I saw it :)

 

I live close to lakeshore, so went for a little walk (it seem like everyone did that)...it was gorgeous

[tokan 16826]

I'll admit that I may have geeked out a bit last night and dusted off my telescope to get a closer look at the super moon, lol. Definitely worth the look though :)

[backrubman 64800]

It'd clouded-over and raining here in Nova Scotia. Not good viewing. Luckily, I found a substitute Super Moon to soothe my inner-astronomer

 

Yes, I'm sure it was spectacular but thank you WIT for a spectacular alternative for those of us "under the weather" :)

[lipualipua 4704]

I am in Kingston and wasn't even aware that a supermoon would occur last night but when I peered out of my study room window around 8pm last night and saw the moon, I was taken aback. That it wasn't a "normal" moon was readily apparent. It was easily two-three times the size of a normal-sized full moon and very golden in colour. In fact it looked "frightening". The phenomenon reawakened in me questions that are always buried in the recesses of my mind - is this life all there is? did some entity fashion the universe or did it just evolve?

One mistake deniers of the possibility for a creator of the universe often make is that because a natural phenomenon can be explained rationally, that phenomenon "just happens", and that it is not the result of physical laws that an originator of the universe could have put in place to govern the universe.

[Guest J****in A**l]

I was lucky enough to catch it last night, it was so beautiful.

[Secrets of Victoria 7208]

There was not much cloud cover in my area, and by the time 12:05am came around, it was a most beautiful sight to behold for sure.

Second only to seeing the northern lights when I lived in Far North Ontario

[Andee 220524]

Pretty awesome for sure.

 

Reminds me of the moon as it appeared in the movie "Moonstruck".