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supermoon not so much

hey there stargazers and in re guess
astronomer from the Cincinnati

Observatory

don't look now but we've got another
super moon coming on August 10

and I James Aubrey director the key
cassava pop planetarium in Gainesville

Florida

don't let the supermoon get to you
because it's not really that big a deal

I'll come on James all the TV news
people go nuts about the supermoon

so it must be something really special
right Dean

you know as well as I do that even
though there is a measurable size

difference between the biggest and
smallest full moon of the year

you can't really notice it without
special measuring devices

pay I have an idea but to tell everybody
about one of the simplest

most handy measuring devices around okay

everyone already has one right at hand
but

we need a really catchy time for but
combined our names in college the

reg all barry noon sizer

now I think I prefer the our gas moon a
meter

is maybe not after all we're talking
about using your pinkie finger

to see how big does supermoon is not

the moon is the easiest thing to see in
the night sky but remember when you're

looking at the moon you're seen
reflected sunlight

the moon does not produce light up and
the moon is not always the stargazers

friend because they can

get to be so bright it wipes out most to
the stars and the Milky Way

let's start watching the moon on the
evening of August 4th

and see what we can see and use your
pinky finger to measure the apparent

size amor

extend your arm stick a pinky finger

close one eye and then put your pinky
finger over the moon

it will disappear behind your finger the
moon will be one day pass first quarter

so it's what we call a waxing gibbous
moon remember give this means hopped

and waxing means it'll get bigger night
after night to the moon's left is the

biggest and brightest constellation of
summer

Scorpius the Scorpion these three stars
mark the head of the Scorpion

and follow this curving line stars down
and around

to the parent stars that marked the
stinger at the end of the tail

the next night a slightly fatter moon
will be above bright

red and Taris which marks the heart of
the Scorpion remember to use your pinky

finger

to measure the moon and Tyrese is one of
the largest stars no

and it were placed where our son is it
would extend out be on mars

and Tories produces over sixty thousand
times as much

energy is our son who

the next two nights the sixth and
seventh even fatter moon will be about

the stars have said Terry its

the Centaur that follows the Scorpion
across the sky but with the extra white

the moon is reflecting

he'll do well to spot but teapot stars
that make up just part of secretaries

the next two nights the 8 and the night
the moon will continue to get fatter

try your finger trick see what happens
the moon is now in the constellation of

Kappa cornice

just barely and though it's not quite
for now

it will probably look forward to most
people but I won't really be full

until 2009 p.m. Eastern Time on the tech

we won't get to see the moon until rises
several hours later

so if you really want to be picky about
it the moon is passed ball when it rises

for us in North America

so what makes this full moon a
supposedly supermoon

supermoon is not really an astronomical
term

refers to a moon that is for at about
the same time it's especially close to

the air

the moon's orbit is not a perfect circle
but is really an ellipse

this means the moon gets closer to the
earth paris je

once every orbit and for this from the
earth Apogee

once every orbit in fact this year the
moon had

to paris je is in January and will have
two more

in November but this pair G on August 10

is only nine minutes away from the time
the moon is full

so it gives us the closest and of
biggest full moon Cup 2014

so look at the rising moon on the
evening of August 10 and use your pinky

finger to measure it can you tell it's a

supermoon keep looking up

me