Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight (Friday)

[Halton Hills]

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Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year.
It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.

Each orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse, and when the moon reaches it's closest point to us (50,000 km closer)......it's called perigee.
Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.

Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year.

As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.


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[Napper]

Halton hills..

Very Impressive moon for sure. Lookin out the back door. It is Huge!

Napper:) the couch potato sitting with the cat in front of the broiling woodstove watching Hockey on the internet listening to my Ipod )

Where the heck is my camera :?:

[JimmyM]

Saw it through my bedroom window ( NW view) at 4:30am - very bright / lit up my room  - woke me up !!
Jim

[egret]

Yes, it really was awesome!

even the stars were
like diamonds sparkling


Egret