UK targazers will glimpse a larger and brighter supermoon Wednesday night.
The July full moon is known as the Buck Moon because male deer shed and regrow their antlers around this time of year.
The name came from a native American system that uses the full moons of the different months as a calendar to track the seasons, said Anna Ross, a planetarium astronomer at Royal Museums Greenwich, in the southeast London†
She said: “The best time to view this supermoon is on the night of July 13, when the moon rises in the east just after sunset and sets in the west just before sunrise.
“There is no specific location where you need to be to observe this event, as this is a bright full moon. As long as the night is clear, it’s easy to tell whether you’re in a light-polluted city or a dark area in the countryside. is located.”
She said a supermoon is the result of a full moon that occurs when it is near the closest to the moon. Soil in his job.
This could happen because the moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical path rather than a circular path, she said.
Ms. Ross added that the Buck Moon will be the largest and brightest supermoon of the year as it represents the moon that will arrive closest to Earth in 2022.
She said, “Since a supermoon means the moon is slightly closer to us, it will appear slightly larger in the sky.
“The apparent difference between the size of the full moon at the nearest and farthest point is only about 14% and while if you were on the moon the brightness wouldn’t change as it’s a little closer it also generally appears to be nearby. 30% brighter for us here on Earth.
“The moon’s average distance from Earth is 384,400 km, but the moon will reach its closest point this lunar month at 9:08 a.m. this lunar month, and then it will be 357,264 km away.
“The exact moment of the full moon closest to this point is also on July 13, but at 7:37 PM.
“This supermoon can be called a Super Buck moon.”
The moon is a beautiful object – it is a wonderful thing, go out and look at it and enjoy the view
She says there is no formal limit to how close the full moon must be to Earth to count as a supermoon.
The deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr Robert Massey, “there are many of these” supermoons, but added: “The moon is a beautiful object – it’s fantastic, go out and look at it and enjoy it view.”
On Wednesday, the moonrise from London is 9:48 PM, it’s 10:35 PM in Edinburgh and 9.24 pm in Plymouthhe said.
He added: “So that’s when you have to go and look, but of course to see it you need a perfect horizon, so you have to look out over a very flat landscape or the sea.”