Daily News | A ‘supermoon’ is about to make its closest approach to Earth of 2022. Here’s what to know.
The moon is about to make its closest approach to the Earth of 2022, and should you be facing southeast when it rises around 9 p.m. Wednesday
“The horizon effect is pretty neat,” says Karen Masters, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Haverford College. And it is a grand illusion that remains something of a scientific head-scratcher. Regardless, they say, the term has value: It is a boon to drawing attention to a mass of metal, dust, and rock that has profound effects on Earth’s weather and waters and the human imagination.Minted by an astrologer in 1979, the term has no technical definition. It is widely used in the astronomical community to describe those full moons that coincide with the moon’s nearest approaches to Earth.
of Earth, the closest approach of the year. That moment occurs at 5:06 a.m. Wednesday, and the moon will reach fullness about 9½ hours later.14% larger than it would when it’s farthest from Earth, about 250,000 miles away. You likely won’t need moon-glasses, but it will beam its reflective sunlight 30% more brightly, Masters said.The visual difference in the moon’s size when it rises will be dramatically evident. It also will be an illusion tied to our neurological wiring.
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