Awesome.

Too bad I'm at work until midnight. From here I couln't really see it until it got above the palm trees, but it is still very large looking. Hopefully, it'll still be big and bright at midnight and I'll stop in at the Vets Hall and sit out with a cigar and get a moon burn!

o:)

7:30PM, Sunday night, 10 Aug 2014.

Well, it's a little after 8:00PM now. The Super Moon is cool... but shrinking...

Edit: It's Tomorrow Land... west of the International Date Line.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/International_Date_Line.png 

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This weekend may prove eye-popping for sky watchers.

Sunday night brings a supermoon, when the full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to the Earth during its elliptical orbit around us.

The full moon will appear 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when it is at its farthest, says Ben Burress, an astronomer with the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.

The moon will be 190,000 miles from the Earth, 20% closer than its farthest point, when it is 240,000 miles away.

"Supermoon" isn't an astronomical term. It became popular only in the past few years, according to the website EarthSky.com. The term was coined by an astrologer, Richard Nolle, over 30 years ago.

Astronomers call them perigee full moons, as perigee means "near Earth." Still, the term doesn't quite fit with the glory of a rising supermoon, so even science sites have started using it.

The light of the supermoon will have the unfortunate effect of making the annual return of the Perseid meteor shower less visible, though.

The prolific Perseids peak between Aug. 10 and Aug. 13. When there's no moonlight to interfere, they can fill the night sky with as many as 80 shooting stars an hour.

This year's show will be muted by the moon as it wanes, but some of the Perseids' brighter meteors should be visible.

To find them, look in the constellation Perseus, which is just to the left of the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters constellation, in the northeastern portion of the sky.

Another option is to look just after sunset, when the moon is still low, says Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine.

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Here's hoping for good weather for you if you plan to go out and look up when night rolls around back over there.

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Supermoon Returns. On Sunday, August 10, the moon is at full phase—and the closest it will be to Earth this year, 221,765 miles (356,896 kilometers) away.

For me it is now Monday morning, 11 Aug 2014, at 4:29am

Chow hall opens at 6:00.

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So I went on to the room. I waited about half an hour or so, grabbed 3 good cigars, and then went back down. I wanted to have a couple of cigars and watch the big, bright full moon.

When I got back, there were a bunch of people just leaving and a few friends were still there. Everybody was gone by 2:00am.

The moon was so bright that the fluffy clouds that were passing by looked like they were passing behind the moon... it was really big and bright.

Smoked a Four Kicks, a Bucanero Full Sail, and a Herrera Esteli. It was a good night.

Now I'll stay up for a while, go for breakfast at 6:00AM, and then come home and sleep until about 2:00PM and then back to work at 4:00PM.

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Better than NASCAR and dirt track news...

;-)

Anybody go out and take a look??

[sarcasm]