What Is A Supermoon? | Video

When the Full Moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, we get a "Supermoon' also known as the Perigee Full Moon. The full Moon appeared about 14% larger and 30% brighter than others on May 5, 2012.

[braveimposter]

Some months ago I literally saw a huge moon, I was feeling like the moon is coming down.
It was beautiful. Very beautiful.
That time I didn't know something like this even exist.
I was in my roof. And I called my dad, as soon as he came the moon is hidden behind the clouds.
I was feeling like that was my Grandma, visiting me.
Her name's meaning was shining of moon.
Idk it was a special moment. And only I saw that moment. Whenever I called my dad, in some second it hid behind clouds.

[JacquelineDowe]

Happy Super Full Moon Weekend. This is it the brightest one for the rest of 2014. Have a great weekend.

[katotheflareon]

I remember seeing this...I thought it was the end of the world lol

[skylilly]

It's all glowy here, it's freakin' Love our moon!!

[huyu]

I wish regular full moons were like this

[hziebicki]

I've seen one near my house recently. It's amazing

[LordDeBahs]

all depends on moisture in air . charged particles of water act as magnifing lense

[ItzDatArcher]

Man i was in first grade when i saw my first supermoon thanks to this video.... man and now im a junior in high school miss those days 😞

[chrisg]

Mountains forming a horizon seen from across a valley or plain often appear to be somehow closer in spatial distance than in journey time, and I wonder if that might be an example of the same effect. I say effect rather than illusion since the magnification could be a neurological adaptation, a kind of useful internal telescope that helps us move about on the planet but only incidentally applies to the moon as well.

[margyoan]

I remember when I was little (around 7) I say a super moon "hanging" over our villa in Pavel Bania... It was HUGE and it a brilliant blue (as far as I could remember)... It looked as if it was going to drop on me and my family (my grandma only to be exact) any second.

[MrPerti]

the report said that it would be at 11.35 pm, but where is that? I know somewhere in the States, and I live in Chile, so i want to know out time difference

[VideoFromSpace]

Uhh...maybe because it's their "fault line, " their power grid, their people and their nuclear reactor?

[oopsadaze]

AT 12: 34 in the Morning Central Time-here in the good old USA...If I can Stay Awake?

[VideoFromSpace]

Oh there's a Moon, alright. Ya just don't see much of it at night. We're at the New Moon, where the Moon is mostly between the Sun and the Earth (when a solar eclipse can occur). So it's only a sliver of a crescent at most and is most seen only in the daytime sky when it can be hard to spot. But it's there!

[TeamJesusGo]

No... I missed both :( when is the next one??

[Futurist]

I thought the enlarged appearance of the moon near the horizon was due to the way we perceive light through our atmosphere (our atmosphere acts like a magnifying glass)... for example, distant stars appear brighter when viewed from the Earth's surface because of the way our atmosphere magnifies the intensity of the incoming light, but those same stars appear more dull when viewed from space. Perhaps I'm over thinking...

[HappDeeNess]

I'm confused... I thought the news last year was saying Super Moons only come around once ever like 18 years... so why is there a super moon in May when we had one last year?

[SoThisOneDude]

Why don't they just call it the perihelion and aphelion? What's the difference between that and perigee/apogee?

[teenygozer]

When is the next "supermoon"?

[AMBIENCE]

One thing is a concern is that gravitation from the moon can cause earthquakes, the moon was closer to the earth in 2011 than in 2010, have 2 check how much closer its got this year. look at last year with the japan earthquake/tsunami gravitational force from the moon Along with the other seizmec activity likely caused this.