Super Moon

The moon is within your grasp!

Did you lay down this weekend to go to bed and feel like you left a light on? Or did you think the street lamps were shining right in your windows? That's because this past week end we had a "Super Moon". Where the moon reached perigee, its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit.

When the moon is on the perigee side of its orbit, it's about 31,000 miles closer to Earth than it usually is. It usually happens once a year.

We like the Full Moon Info site, run out of Germany, to remind us each month the dates of the full moons. The date of the next one is Monday June 4th 2012. The time is given in European Central Time, so I would guesstimate at about 11:30 our time it will be the fullest too!