Tuesday, November 15, 2016

The night of the Supermoon. Indeed. Bigger and brighter and close enough to wave to the man on the moon.

14 November 2016
By Paul Rincon

A selection of pictures (click here) from the UK and abroad as the moon makes its closest approach since 1948.

...The UK's (click here) best chance to see it is on Monday evening; the Moon rose at 16:43 GMT in Edinburgh and 16:44 in London.
To observers, it will appear about 7% larger than normal and about 15% brighter - although the human eye is barely able to discern that difference.
The Moon was closest - only 221,524 miles (356,509km) away - at 11:21 GMT...