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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Well, it's up and it looks the same as every other Moonrise to me.
I can't notice the 17% increase in angular diameter.  
Maybe I'm not looking hard enough 
My mother-In-Law is arguing that it looks bigger though
Her: "ooo, yeah, it's a lot bigger"
Me: "Yes, mother dear"  |
I have only seen one artical that made the entire statement "17% bigger than the SMALLEST full moon you can normall see", I.E. 17% bigger than an APOGEE full moon. But then it does not whip up interest to tell the world at large that the perigee full moon will look pretty much like any other.