On August 19, at 20:26 Hungarian time, everyone looking up at the sky can be part of an amazing phenomenon, because there is not only a full moon, but also a supermoon, also known as a blue moon, as the Economics It's still Monday. Since then, many photos and videos of the phenomenon have appeared online.
The video published by the Guardian, for example, shows what the moon looked like at the Temple of Poseidon near Athens, or in Istanbul, or in South Korea.
CBS News posted a similar video from US sites:
A former Reuters photographer from New York shared a photo of the moon:
A current Reuters employee photographed the orb in Paris.
In Los Angeles, Fox News showed what the moon looked like:
It could happen again in 13 years.
This lunar event last occurred a year ago, and the next super blue moon is expected to occur in January and March 2037. About a quarter of full moons are super moons, and only 3% are blue moons.
The so-called supermoon appears as the biggest and brightest lunar event of the year. The moon's orbit around Earth is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse, so when the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit, it can appear up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than when it is farther from the planet.
The supermoon can be seen with the naked eye and does not require a special viewing location. At night, the moon rises higher and higher until just before sunrise.
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