(14 Nov 2024)
WORLD SUPERMOON
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ARCHIVE: London, UK – 17 October
1. Close of supermoon
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ARCHIVE: Pula, Croatia – 14 November 2016
2. Various of supermoon as seen through arch in Pula amphitheatre
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London, UK – 14 November 2024
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3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Edward Bloomer, Senior Astronomy Manager, Royal Observatory Greenwich:
"The general gist of it is that the moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfectly circular. It’s an ellipse, so sometimes it’s slightly further away, sometimes it’s slightly closer. And that ellipse also sort of rolls around, as it were. So, the supermoon is when we have a nice full moon. So that is to say, you’ve got the Sun, the Earth and the moon in alignment, so we get the full moon illuminated, but also because of that elliptical orbit that it’s also closer than usual to the Earth."
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ARCHIVE: Sarajevo, Bosnia – 14 November 2016
4. Close of supermoon behind branches of trees
5. Moon next to building
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London, UK – 14 November 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Edward Bloomer, Senior Astronomy Manager, Royal Observatory Greenwich:
"You get little clusters of a couple in a year. You quite often get what you will get is two successive ones, or a little group of successive ones or maybe even three in a row because basically you’ve got less than a calendar month to get back round to the same place. And if you’ve got that ten per cent to play with that hasn’t been enough of a shift, so the next one coming around also counts as a supermoon."
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ARCHIVE: Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia – 13 August 2024
7. Timelapse of meteor shower next to a destroyed tank, memorial of Bosnian War
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London, UK – 14 November 2024
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8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Edward Bloomer, Senior Astronomy Manager, Royal Observatory Greenwich:
"It’s quite convenient this time around because the moon will show you roughly where in the sky the meteors are coming from. And then you turn away from that area, and then you see the meteors a bit better. So this time, to some extent, in a kind of way the moon is helping."
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ARCHIVE: New Delhi, India – 14 November 2016
9. Various of supermoon above city
STORYLINE:
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The last of four supermoons this year rises tomorrow (15 November) promising dazzling views of Earth’s closest companion in the cosmos.
Stargazers are expecting a show as the moon appears larger and brighter in the night sky and could be augmented with a show from the Leonid meteor shower.
STORYLINE
A supermoon is always a captivating sight.
On November 15 the beaver supermoon rises – the last supermoon of 2024.
One theory for why it is called a beaver supermoon is this is the time beavers typically start preparing their winter dams and stocking up for the colder months ahead – according to NASA.
Appearing larger and brighter in the sky it can arrest the attention and lead to the question: "Does the moon look bigger tonight?"
A supermoon obviously isn’t bigger, but it can appear that way.
According to Bloomer, they usually seem seven per cent larger and also brighter in the night sky.
This is the last of a quartet of supermoons this year.
The first in August was 224,917 miles (361,970 kilometres) away.
October’s supermoon was the year’s closest at 222,055 miles (357,364 kilometres) from Earth.
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