Excellent Scott, thanks for the pic! LOL, I've had local people tell me they saw the "Supermoon eclipse"!
"Supermoon" is rubbish for a start, 1% larger than the last Full Moon and not a huge difference that you'd notice visually between perigee & apogee moons anyway. But the hype gets people out looking at the Moon, people who'd otherwise never give it a glance. And when they see a BIG Moon rising above the horizon, they wax lyrical about seeing the huge Supermoon. And the legend grows!
But of course it's just the Moon illusion, when it often looks much bigger close to the horizon than it does when it's high in the sky! For this eclipse, the people who claimed to see it locally just saw a big orange Moon rising through dust. Hard to convince them - they reckon I'm an idiot (which I am, but not for this!
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Thanks again -
Cheers -
