Tonight the moon will us to be extremely large, as it is located very close to the Earth. Our natural satellite is moving because the orbit is not a perfect circle but an ellipse with eccentricity 0.0554. This causes the lunar distance from Earth varies from 363,104 km at perigee (closest point of orbit – and that’s what we’ll watch) to 405,696 kilometers in apogee (farthest point of the orbit).
In our natural satellite perigee gives the impression of almost a third higher than when it is at the greatest distance from our planet. It is also about ten percent lighter. All those who intend to perpetuate this view, should have no trouble with taking pictures – the Polish clouds to be little.
As the researchers point out, Superpełnia is a nice curiosity, which can be used to take an interest in astronomy wider group of people and an opportunity to encourage people to take to the observations and glance at the starry sky. Assigning her supernatural abilities, skills disasters causing or astrological consequence, however, is nothing more than a pseudoscientific nonsense.
(JM)
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