Enjoy The Supermoon Tonight

Tonight is a full moon and what is also hyped in the media as a “supermoon”. In fact, the moon will actually appear about 7% larger and 15% brighter that a normal full moon. This is because the moon is making its closest approach to the Earth since 1948 and it will not be this close again until 2034. Today it is just over 220,000 miles away. Since there was a chance it might be cloudy in our area tonight, I went out last night to have a look. It was certainly bright enough under the nearly full moon – you could almost read a book out there. I took a couple of photos using the Starblast 4.5 and the 25MM lens.

Hopefully, the weather will be clear in your area tonight so make sure you get out and take a look at this magnificent moon. You want see it like this for another eighteen years.

The above is the original photograph and the one below is with some slight adjustments in GMIP using Curves.