Madrid Spain.
The second perigee moon of the year, popularly known as Super moon, it will illuminate the sky tonight from 18:48 hours, according to the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN), with a slightly greater appearance – up to 14 percent – than usual and a brightness 30 percent more intense.
The fact that the Moon’s orbit is elliptical means that there is a point where the satellite is at a maximum distance from the Earth -406,000 kilometers- and another at which it is at a minimum distance -356,000 kilometers-, known as apogee and perigee, respectively, and in this case the lunar perigee will occur at 7:33 a.m. on day 10, adds the OAN.
The Super moon March may be seen throughout Spain, although the “somewhat tangled” skies in the northern half of the peninsula “can blur its silhouette,” said Efe Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet).
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They will be “high clouds”, which will affect mostly Madrid, Castile and León, Navarra, La Rioja and the Cantabrian, but “they will not cover the sky”, so when the light goes out, from approximately 9:00 p.m., the Moon in its perigee will be visible in all zones.
“From Madrid down the skies will be quite clean and only some clouds could form in the Mediterranean area,” added the spokesman for the Aemet, who stressed that in the Canary Islands, where “there is a lot of love for astronomy,” some high cloud can affect the most western islands and the calima can subtract some brightness from the Moon.
Precisely, the Teide Observatory will broadcast from 18:45 the moment when the Moon will align with the shadow of the volcano that crowns the summit of Tenerife and that, because of its height and because from its peak it has all the horizons cleared, It is one of the best places to observe the formation and evolution of the shadow of a mountain.
The Madrid Planetarium explain in your account Twitter that the moon of the perigee was called supermoon by the astrologer Richard Nolle at the end of the seventies “to color the catastrophic fact of the greater proximity of the satellite”.
And he clarifies that, despite the fact that in this event “you can see our satellite up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than any other full moon that does not match the perigee, you should not fool yourself, because we would need two full moons in the sky at the same time to compare them and most likely we would not appreciate a difference. “
According to the Meteored weather portal, this supermoon can be enjoyed throughout the night without the need for special instruments or visual protection and will have an effect on the Earth known as perigee tides or live tides of greater intensity.
Other astronomical events will take place throughout the month of March, according to the OAN, the most significant two other supermoons (April 8 and May 7), several star showers, a red moon (June 5) and a blue moon (October 31).
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