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supermoon not so much


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hey there stargazers and in re guess
astronomer from the Cincinnati

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Observatory


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

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

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Florida


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

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

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so it must be something really special
right Dean

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

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difference between the biggest and
smallest full moon of the year

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you can't really notice it without
special measuring devices

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

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most handy measuring devices around okay


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everyone already has one right at hand
but

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

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reg all barry noon sizer


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now I think I prefer the our gas moon a
meter

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

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to see how big does supermoon is not


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

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looking at the moon you're seen
reflected sunlight

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

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friend because they can


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

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

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

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size amor


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extend your arm stick a pinky finger


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

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

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

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

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biggest and brightest constellation of
summer

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

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and follow this curving line stars down
and around

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

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the next night a slightly fatter moon
will be above bright

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

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finger


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

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

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and Tories produces over sixty thousand
times as much

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energy is our son who


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

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the stars have said Terry its


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

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the moon is reflecting


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

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

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

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Kappa cornice


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just barely and though it's not quite
for now

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

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until 2009 p.m. Eastern Time on the tech


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

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

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for us in North America


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so what makes this full moon a
supposedly supermoon

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supermoon is not really an astronomical
term

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

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the air


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

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this means the moon gets closer to the
earth paris je

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once every orbit and for this from the
earth Apogee

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once every orbit in fact this year the
moon had

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to paris je is in January and will have
two more

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in November but this pair G on August 10


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

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

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

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finger to measure it can you tell it's a


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supermoon keep looking up


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me