On Wednesday night, the September full moon will appear in the sky, which is called a “harvest moon” or “full moon”. This particular full moon differs from the others because, firstly, it rises almost at the same time as sunset and, secondly, it appears a few nights earlier and, in this case, reaches its peak tonight. Today’s full moon is actually a full supermoon.
It got its name because in the old days, when the harvest was done by farmers exclusively by hand, the bright light of this particular full moon, which lasted until a few nights, helped them to harvest the crops before winter and during the night.
As its orbit is elliptical Moon Around the Earth the distance between the bodies fluctuates, a super full moon occurs when the full moon coincides with a very close approach to the Moon. The Earth-Moon distance varies from 406,712 kilometers (apogee) to 356,445 kilometers (perigee). When the full moon occurs near perigee, it is said to be a supermoon, supermoon or super full moon, which are non-astronomical terms. The term, according to NASA, was coined by astrologer Richard Nole in 1979.
A perigee full moon, being closest to us, appears up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than a full moon at apogee. Additionally, a super full moon is about 7% larger and 15% brighter than an average full moon.
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