Saturday, May 05, 2012

Supermoon Tonight!

It's a great night to be deep in the Argentine pampas ...and maybe your Buenos Aires rooftop!

It's Supermoon 2012 and if the skies are as clear as last night, I should be quite a show.

Since the moon will be as close as it ever gets, it will appear "as much as 16 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012—not a huge amount, but definitely noticeable," said Geza Gyuk, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

I'll post some photos tomorrow.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120503-supermoon-saturday-closest-earth-tides-disasters-space-science/

1 comment:

Ronald said...

And of course, another of nature's rare event is occurring in the city of BA, fog. I don't recall that I ever seen that here before as well.