Photo by @babaktafreshi
The World at Night project
The Full Moon rising above Boston light; an island 9 miles offshore Boston. I wish you clear skies to enjoy the full moon this evening and tomorrow. The Sunday moon is also the year’s only Supermoon as the full moon comes close enough to Earth. But don’t be fooled with this exciting term! Supermoons are just less than 14% larger than an average full moon, not even noticeable to most observers. The reason behind our experience of seeing huge moon rising is the so-called Moon Illusion, a beautiful brain-made perception with objects celestial objects on the horizon. If you photograph the moon on the horizon and up in the sky, they are at the same size.
A supermoon may also bring the largest tides of the year. But this gravitational pull is far less effective than the force needed to trigger massive earthquakes, flooding, or volcanic eruptions. So there is no proven relation between these.
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