The Hunter Supermoon 2024, the largest full Moon of the year with the comet: online observation – 17 Oct. 2024
Next 17 Oct., we will have the largest full Moon of the year, the 3rd Supermoon of 2024, together with the bright comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. We will show them online, in real-time.
The Hunter Supermoon 2024 and comet C/2023 A3: poster of the event.
Next 17 Oct. 2024, the sky will offer us the third Supermoon of the year, the closest, hence the largest full Moon of 2024. While the Supermoon will rise, the stunning comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will set in the opposite direction of the sky. We will share live images of both the Hunter Supermoon and the comet from our robotic facility in Manciano, Italy, hopefully seeing them at the same time via our allsky imaging camera!
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 17 October 2024, starting at 17:30 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”.
“Observing the sky from the city is extremely important to rise awareness about the light pollution issue. 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, understating 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 17 Oct. 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”.
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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