The
full moon of November 14, 2016 was not only the biggest, closest and brightest
supermoon of the year, but it’s also the closest supermoon since January 26,
1948. This full moon instant happened in the morning hours before sunrise. The moon won’t come this close to Earth again
until November 25, 2034.
Astronomers
call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigee
describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for any given month. Five years ago
– when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011 – many began
using the term supermoon, which we’d never heard before. In the following
years, we heard this term again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May
6, 2012, and again on June 23, 2013, and again on August 10, 2014, and yet
again on September 28, 2015. The full
moon last month on October 16, 2016 – was also a supermoon, but this November
supermoon was even more super because the time of full moon fell even closer to
the time of the moon’s closest point to Earth.
So
when the alarm goes off at 4am you question why you thought it was such a good
idea to wake up early and head out to photograph the setting of the supermoon… But once out on the sand at the Huntington
Beach Pier, it became clear…wow!
And
after the moon finished setting and the sun came up, the beach began to get
populated with surfers. I believe in
Heaven, and I sometimes wonder if it’s pretty close to where I live…
To
see more images from my Huntington Beach collection, visit my website gallery
at: http://www.costamesaphotography.com/California/OC-Orange-County/Huntington-Beach/
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