by InTrieste
The full moon tonight, Aug. 1 is the second of four supermoons in the summer of 2023, with the next, the Full Blue Moon, falling on Aug. 30 (what a super month!).
NASA defines the term supermoon “as either a new or full moon that happens with the moon is within 90% of perigee, its closet approach to Earth.”
They are known as the biggest and brightest full moons of the year.
If you don’t get to see the one tonight due to cloudy weather over Trieste, you’ll get another chance this month on Wednesday, 30 August.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
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