Showing posts with label Full moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Full moon. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2014

'Supermoon': Biggest Full Moon of 2014

An astrophotographer captured this photo of the supermoon rising behind a lighthouse and some observers on Aug. 10, 2014.

Credit: Mark Gee

Photographers around the world ventured outside Sunday (Aug. 10) to snap photos of the bright, full "supermoon" rising in the night sky.

August's full moon, called a supermoon because it is occurred when the moon was closest to Earth in its orbit, wowed skywatchers, inspiring some of them to turn their cameras skyward to catch breathtaking views of the biggest full moon of 2014.

Some photographers had to wait for a break in the clouds to capture their images, while others chased the moon to different observing sites.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Oak Moon

The full moon of December is called the oak moon. 

Other names are frost moon, winter moon, long night’s moon, and moon before Yule.

In Hindi it is known as margashirsha poornima. Its Sinhala (Buddhist) name is unduvap. 

The full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise, the only night in the month when the moon is in the sky all night long. 

The rest of the month, the moon spends at least some time in the daytime sky. 

CREDIT: Starry Night Software