The Sturgeon Blue Supermoon 2024: online observation (19 Aug. 2024)
Next 19 Aug., we will have the 1st Supermoon of the year, the Sturgeon full Moon. It also is the 3rd full Moon of the four ones this season will show, a so-called Blue Moon. We will show it online, while it rises above sea in Central Italy.
The Sturgeon Blue Supermoon 2024: poster of the event.
Next 19 Aug., the sky will offer us the first Supermoon of 2024. It also is the 3rd full Moon of the four ones this season will show, a so-called Blue Moon. We will admire our satellite rising, at sunset, above the sea in Central Italy.
You can join this exciting, unforgettable experience from the comfort of your home. It is easy, its is free.
The online, free session is scheduled for 19 August 2024, starting at 19:30 UTC.
To join, you just need to enter, at the date and time above, our webTV page here!
Here they are a few comments about the Supermoon by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, PhD, founder and Director of the Virtual Telescope Project. He will guide you during the upcoming live feed!
“Supermoon is a popular term indicating a full Moon or a new Moon happening when our satellite is close to its perigee, that is its minimum distance from the Earth. The term itself is of no scientific value: astronomers prefer to call it perigee full Moon, but undoubtedly “Supermoon” is by far a much more charming name”.
“The Supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky. Showing the stunning beauty up there, feeding the desire to enjoy it more and better, understanding why it is disappearing from our cities, makes it possible to involve people and spontaneously promote responsible actions and behaviours in the use of artificial light”.
“The 19 Aug. 2024 “Supermoon” will appear a bit brighter and bigger than an average full Moon, but casual stargazers will not recognize this at their first glance, these are not really obvious variations, but this adds charm to the event, a precious opportunity to admire our natural satellite in the night sky context, an increasingly overlooked and forgotten landscape”.
“This full Moon is the 3rd of the four ones we will see during the current season. Such a full Moon is often called Blue Moon, but of course this has nothing to do with the real color of our satellite. Such a seasonal Blue Moon happened last time in 2021 and will happen again in 2027”.
Supermoon vs Minimoon
“The show of the full Moon (and of course of the “Supermoon”) offers its best when our satellite rises or sets, which happens at sunset and at dawn, respectively (the full Moon shines in the sky on the opposite direction respect to the Sun, so it rises at sunset and sets at dawn). During the twilight, the residual solar light scattered all around by our atmosphere allows us to admire the scenery, while the full Moon rises or falls on the horizon. At night, the full Moon is very bright, almost dazzling, compared to the darkness of the landscape. At its rise, the Moon appears behind monuments and elements of the landscape, generating the feeling that its disk is larger than usual, but this is just an optical illusion, due to the presence of those terrestrial elements on the line of sight, giving grounds for comparison”.
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