Too cloudy. Just got done raining a few hours ago. This always happens whenever something cool like this happens.
It looks like a normal full moon over here.
Which is disappointing, cause' I probably missed it.
Central Florida here. Went outside to look, definitely brighter.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/eREfGG.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/s1iaYo.jpg[/t]
Arguing with a friend over whether or not it's brighter than a regular full moon. Definitely is to me. I think he's an idiot.
Pretty cloudy here, but when the clouds got thin enough they gave the moon a pretty cool glowing halo.
yo the moon aint different
The Moon is being really damn bright here on Brazil, looks pretty cool.
Supermoon my fucking ass, it's obviously the moon being slowly pulled towards us on a dastardly course for collision.
[QUOTE=BigOwl;35844967]Supermoon my fucking ass, it's obviously the moon being slowly pulled towards us on a dastardly course for collision.[/QUOTE]
No, no. It's still Super Moon.
It saw an elderly woman getting robbed and it's coming to help.
It is really freaking bright tonight.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ru882.jpg[/IMG]
taken on a phone
Clouds are assholes. I can't see shit.
I saw the moon clearly, but for some reason it's never as big as on those pics.
I saw the moon for a few minutes, but it was behind the clouds again, the moon will look much bigger on the horizon, or when it's next to an object you can compare it too (Mental Trick).
It's very bright though, it almost seemed like it was dawn outside.
The moon looks only a tiny bit bigger than usual I think. But it's super duper bright.
For your information, the moon was only 6% close to Earth than its average. That's not a difference noticeable with the unaided eye. It magnitude was only .01 brighter than the full moon last month.
Basically, sensationalism got the best of you all.
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];35848500']Basically, sensationalism got the best of you all.[/QUOTE]
Who cares? People like to enjoy little things.
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];35848500']For your information, the moon was only 6% close to Earth than its average. That's not a difference noticeable with the unaided eye. It magnitude was only .01 brighter than the full moon last month.
Basically, sensationalism got the best of you all.[/QUOTE]
And still it is ~15% larger and much brighter than the "usual" moon.
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;35844454]Florida here. Just took this:
[img]http://sadpanda.us/images/949565-MO1H655.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
This is how I saw it too.
Thing was fucking bright, I wish the moon was always like that.
Perth Westen australia here
Extremely bright. Has been raining all day, clouds just parted so i could see it. Can see everything outside clearly without a light.
Brighest ive seen it ever
[QUOTE=Swebonny;35848648]And still it is ~15% larger and much brighter than the "usual" moon.[/QUOTE]
Except it's not? It's magnitude is only .01 degree more than its usual. That's not a notable difference at all.
And if it is at ~15% larger, we're only talking, at the very most, 39.2' compared to 34.1'- a 3.1' difference. I don't know if you ever actually tried to measure an object in angular degrees, but a 3.1' difference isn't very significant unless you're actually measuring it- it's not a difference you're going to notice without it being pointed out to you and given something to compare to. That 3.1' is about the difference in angular size between the sun and the moon- barely anything of note.
15% sounds like alot, but when you're talking something of such small size as the moon usually is, it's not all that much.
I'll leave you with a quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson on the matter:
"Moon Lunacy strikes again: The impending Supermoon is to an average full Moon what a 16" Pizza is to a 15" Pizza. So chillax."
It was a little orange here in Ontario.
All I can say it it was so bright that it sometimes looked like a white dot.
Wait, this was last night? Damn computer always making me not go outside
I knew something was different about the moon last couple nights when I was out having a smoke. I thought I was losing my mind or something like that
Is that what it was? I was wondering why it looked so bright outside when I went to get a drink at 1 AM.
I couldn't even find the moon.
[QUOTE=Averice;35848535]Who cares? People like to enjoy little things.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, let them enjoy it.
I do remember it being very bright yesterday :v:
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];35848936']Except it's not? It's magnitude is only .01 degree more than its usual. That's not a notable difference at all.
And if it is at ~15% larger, we're only talking, at the very most, 39.2' compared to 34.1'- a 3.1' difference. I don't know if you ever actually tried to measure an object in angular degrees, but a 3.1' difference isn't very significant unless you're actually measuring it- it's not a difference you're going to notice without it being pointed out to you and given something to compare to. That 3.1' is about the difference in angular size between the sun and the moon- barely anything of note.
15% sounds like alot, but when you're talking something of such small size as the moon usually is, it's not all that much.
I'll leave you with a quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson on the matter:
"Moon Lunacy strikes again: The impending Supermoon is to an average full Moon what a 16" Pizza is to a 15" Pizza. So chillax."[/QUOTE]
I shouldn't have said the "usual" moon. But size difference of ~15% is definitely noticeable. I often take pictures of the moon and can noticed the difference in my pictures. I'm not sure what media mean when talking about 15 % but I'm going to assume it's the difference between the max and min angular degree, which I believe is between the lunar perigee and apogee.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Lunar_perigee_apogee.png[/t]
And here we have a picture of the comparison of several min/max angular degrees.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Comparison_angular_diameter_solar_system.svg[/IMG]
The difference is roughly 4 arc minutes. Notice that the difference is quite big.
And the brightness thing I just base on things I've read in the news. They state 20-30% brighter. But I don't know how it is measured. 0.01 magnitude makes no sense when you don't state what it's relative too.
I seen it last night and thought it looked a little bigger & brighter than normal...
I managed to capture this. It looks awesome from here.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/WjN6I.jpg[/img]
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