On Thursday, the full moon of August, known as the Sturgeon Moon, will rise tonight at approximately 9:36 p.m. EDT and 6:36 p.m. PDT (Friday at 01:36 GMT), Space.com reports.

According to Fred Espanak (opens in new t eclipse expert and retired NASA astrophysicist, it will occur when the moon is within 90% of its closest approach to Earth making it a “supermoon.”

As per the reports of Space.com, three supermoons have already been witnessed this year in May, June, and July with August’s supermoon wrapping things up with the last supermoon of the year.

Per Espanak’s website, 2023 will also see four consecutive full supermoons, as will 2024. Even 2025 has three in a row.

Unfortunately for meteor shower enthusiasts, the full moon will coincide with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, upstaging and outshining many of the fainter meteors.

According to the statement from NASA, observers in North America can expect to see between 50 and 60 meteors per hour, however, the full moon will reduce the visibility of meteors to about 10-20 per hour at most.

A supermoon will seem as much as 30% brighter and 14% larger than usual and might be very difficult to spot such a difference with the naked eye.

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In this tough time, any good news is a breath of freshness and any distraction is the source of going forward. And you indeed are going to experience a beautiful distracted tomorrow, i.e. April 8. Tomorrow night, the sky will have a ‘super pink Moon’.

It won’t be pink, but it will appear to be the biggest and brightest of all the full Moons of 2020 – those points every 29-and-a-half days when Earth is right between the Moon and the Sun, meaning we get to see the Moon completely lit up.

It will be a perfect example of a supermoon and full Moon together. The scientists have shared that the Moon will be in perigee: the closest possible point to us in its elliptic orbit, a mere 357,035 kilometers or 221,851 miles away from Earth.

A supermoon can appear 7 percent larger than a normal full Moon, and 15 percent brighter, too. That’s pretty interesting for astronomers, even if the difference may not always seem dramatic from Earth – we can’t easily compare full Moons side by side.

Even if it’s not going to loom pink, we think looking up at the night skies to appreciate the bright ball may give us all a little time of respite from worrying about these trying times that we’re all going through.

The pink supermoon will be visible in the night skies over Australia on the evening of Wednesday 8 April. If you’re following in the UK, the brightness peak will be in the early hours of April 8, and for the US, the best time to get out and lookup is the evening of Tuesday 7 April.

As it happens, we’re actually in the middle of a run of supermoons right now, with March, April and May all having one. If you miss this one, you won’t have to wait long for the next chance.

This is also going to be the first full moon after the equinox, the first full moon of spring (in the northern hemisphere) – this is how the date of Easter is set each year, which is why this coming Sunday is Easter Sunday.

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