#supermoon 2016

December Supermoon The event on the eve of December 13 will make the moon appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than average This will happen in Australia The final supermoon of 2016 will grace the night’s sky later this week. Although December’s supermoon isn’t set to be as big or bright as the one we witnessed in November , it’s still worth looking out for. As long as there’s not too much…

My fave from The Atlantic’s photo coverage of the Supermoon 2016, one of 21 photos. Super photos of a remarkable perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. The Supermoon goes down behind the spire of the Empire State Building the morning of November 14, 2016 in New York. #

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As close as possible to you. 

Power of Your Love (by Don Moen)

Lord I come to You Let my heart be changed, renewed Flowing from the grace That I have found in You And Lord I have come to know The weaknesses I see in me Will be stripped away By the power of Your love Hold me close Let Your love surround me Bring me near Draw me to Your side And as I wait I will rise up like the eagle And I will soar with You Your Spirit leads me on In the power of Your love Lord unveil my eyes Let me see You face to face The knowledge of Your love As You live in me And Lord renew my mind As Your will unfolds in my life In living every day By the power of Your love Hold me close Let Your love surround me Bring me near Draw me to Your side And as I wait I will rise up like the eagle And I will soar with You Your Spirit leads me on In the power of Your love 

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I hope I don’t sound too grumpy when I say this, but I’m tired of seeing these faked photos of the ‘Supermoon’ every time we have one. You know the ones I mean, where people or buildings are silhouetted by a moon that is taking up a massively disproportionate amount of the night sky and the caption tells you that it’s the moon from last night photographed somewhere you weren’t. 

Why does it need to be embellished like that and then attempted to be passed off as real?

And by the way, by definition, every year has a moon that is the closest of the year. And also, whatever the distance from Earth that moon is, it will always be the closest since some year or other. (this one was the closest since 1948) We don’t need to hype it as a ‘supermoon.’