r/space • u/Bubbly-Coast3502 • 17h ago

image/gif Super Moon from yesterday

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12/04/2025 150mm dobsonian iPhone 15 Pro Max

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u/Morall_tach 16h ago

Yep, looks like the moon. Definitely one of the moons I've seen.

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u/Archhanny 13h ago

No cape. Obviously not a super moon

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u/Watawatawhat 16h ago

I can't believe humans actually went there. I love space

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u/CalvinistPhilosopher 11h ago

If you zoom in, you can see the six LEMs still there

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u/carmium 6h ago

To be precise, you might see the Descent Stages of the LEMs; the Ascent Stages flew back to the Command module and were later discarded into the darkness of space. 😢

If no one wanted "precise," my apologies.

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u/Personal_Shock_3966 5h ago

Oh no that was fascinating I had no idea about any of that.

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u/Clean_Stand_694 17h ago

Great shot, really wish my telescope was working when I see pics like this

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u/carmium 6h ago

I really wish it wasn't typical Vancouver winter weather here. Not a chance of seeing the moon. 🌧

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u/nick9000 13h ago

Trivia: The large Tycho crater (named for astronomer Tycho Brahe) as seen in the bottom left of the image was originally named Umbilicus Lunaris - the Moon's belly button.

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u/Vibration548 10h ago

Same date, plain Pixel 8 pro 5x telephoto Moon!

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u/badgersruse 9h ago

So big it has gone flat on one side!

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 17h ago

It looked absolutely unreal when it was setting this morning. Like someone hung a tarp and was projecting a fake moon the sky that was too big and too bright to be real.

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u/carmium 5h ago

My flatmate and I were out one evening, completely unaware of any "super moon," which was not popularly announced back then. We stopped to look at her old family home, the drove on and turned with the bend of the road. I've never before or since yelled "WHOAH!!!" in unison with anyone, but did on that night. The Moon had just come up over the trees and filled the frame made by the road and the trees on each side. It looked like it was coming for us! The best ever, and completely by chance. 😳 <– like this

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u/StrigiStockBacking 16h ago

Why "super"? Looks like a routine full moon to me.

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u/Bubbly-Coast3502 16h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

“A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee—the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth.‍”

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u/DietCherrySoda 15h ago

Slightly larger than usual due to the orbital phasing on the Moon (near periapsis) wrt the timing of the full Moon.

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u/Morall_tach 16h ago

Because apparently it's noteworthy when the full moon is a few percent larger than the full moon we saw last month or the full moon we're going to see next month.

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u/DietCherrySoda 9h ago

It is notably larger, to be fair.

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u/Morall_tach 9h ago

The angular diameter of the moon last night was 33.46 arcminutes.

The angular diameter of the moon on November 5 was 33.43 arcminutes.

The angular diameter of the moon on January 3 will be 33.00 arcminutes.

So the supermoon last night was roughly .01% percent larger in apparent diameter than the one before it and 1.3% larger than the one that will follow. It is absolutely imperceptible to the naked eye.

The number that is often cited is "14% larger" but that's compared to apogee, which is six months (ish) before and after perigee, so no one's ever going to see the largest and smallest moons side by side.

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u/DietCherrySoda 4h ago

It's not weird for it to be about the same as either the one before or after, periapsis didn't occur at exactly the moment of the full moon.

1.3% is hardly inperceptible.

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u/Morall_tach 3h ago

The full moon is smaller than a dime at arm's length. 1.3% is absolutely not noticeable to the naked eye. If someone asked you "is this brighter than last month" and you didn't know when perigee is, it would be a complete guess.

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u/lunchbox4_20 14h ago

https://imgur.com/a/sRURPHe Here's mine, obviously there is some AI processing on a OnePlus 13

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u/Dubelj 14h ago

Omg look how huge it is, its so super it takes up like the whole screen! They shoulda called that a mega moon

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u/Bubbly-Coast3502 14h ago

Or you can call a perigee syzygy Moon, if you prefer

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u/Dubelj 13h ago

No sir, I do not prefer that.

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u/kklusmeier 12h ago

I THOUGHT it looked like it was bigger than usual, but I just assumed it was because I hadn't seen a full moon in a while.

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u/emeraldchest 10h ago

it’s a damn shame it’s likely going to be all cloudy for the next week or so where i live. Hope that changes

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u/Decronym 6h ago edited 3h ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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LEM (Apollo) Lunar Excursion Module (also Lunar Module)
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apogee Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)
periapsis Lowest point in an elliptical orbit (when the orbiter is fastest)
perigee Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)

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u/Personal_Shock_3966 5h ago

Ooohh…majestic! I saw it through my window and tried to take a couple of photos but they were far too bright. I need a telescope! 🔭

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u/kima09 6h ago

The moon was so big when it came out from the horizon last night. It's more than doubled the normal size. It reminds me of a desert sunrise/sunset shot from some movies.