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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