‘Supermoon’ lights up sky around the world

From Beijing to Berlin, star gazers around the world admired the supermoon – the largest, brightest full moon in almost seven decades – as it made its way across the skies on Sunday and Monday.

If the sky is clear, it will be seen rising in the East as the sun sets in the West – start looking around 4.40pm.

The UK’s best chance to see it will be on Monday evening, although the Moon reaches its closest approach at 11:21 GMT when it will be 356,509 km away.

The supermoon this year was due to the fact that the gap between the Earth and our moon was at its closest point, called the perigee, which covers a distance of 221,525 miles.

The moon’s orbit around Earth isn’t a ideal circle.

IT may be a cloudy night in Scotland, but some lucky people across the country have been able to catch a rare sight of the supermoon. Overcast skies can diminish the moon’s brightness significantly, and clouds are possible in the area tonight. The two extreme points of the orbit each month are known as the lunar perigee and apogee. They said as orbit of the moon around the earth is elliptical, causes to change the distance between the earth and the moon. What makes this one different is that it has come in close, while it’s a full moon, appearing 14-percent larger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons. Those who miss it won’t see another one this close to the earth until 2034. The moon reaches both every 27.55 days, which is how long it takes to orbit Earth.

Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, tourist landmarks and beaches worldwide on Monday to catch a glimpse of the closest “supermoon” to Earth in nearly seven decades.

But Monday’s will be the biggest supermoon since 1948, according to Bob Berman, an astronomer at the Slooh Community Observatory.