07/02/2023
Two events for this evening!!
This evening’s sunset brings us two very special events!!
We will have the opportunity view the 1st, Full Supermoon of 2023!
According to Wikipedia, “A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee—the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth. The technical name is a perigee syzygy or a full Moon around perigee.”
We will also have a Black Supermoon! Only happens once a year!!
Black Moons are invisible, like all new Moons, so you won’t see the Moon itself! This is a fairly rare occurrence; we did not experience any Black Moons in 2021. Unlike a "supermoon," which gets countless numbers of people scurrying for vantage points to see a slightly larger and slightly brighter-than-average full moon, with a Black Moon, you simply can't see it.
A couple of evenings later, however, you'll be able to pick out a slender sliver of a waxing crescent moon low in the western twilight sky about 30 or 40 minutes after sunset local time.
