{"id":9593,"date":"2016-11-14T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:29:42","slug":"supermoon-to-appear-on-nov-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/supermoon-to-appear-on-nov-14\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Supermoon\u2019 to appear on Nov. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (<a href=\"http:\/\/pagasa.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/transparency\/pagasa-key-officials\/28-astronomy\/424-sky-this-month\">PAGASA<\/a>), the Moon will reach perigee \u2013Moon\u2019s closest point as it orbits Earth \u2013 tonight (November 14, 2016)\u00a0at 07:21 p.m. It will last for almost 2 hours and 31 minutes before going Full Moon at 09:52 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9594\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/full-moon-2016-lro_0.jpg\" alt=\"IDL TIFF file\" width=\"1041\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/full-moon-2016-lro_0.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/full-moon-2016-lro_0-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/full-moon-2016-lro_0-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/full-moon-2016-lro_0-1024x315.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2016\/novembers-spectacular-supermoon\">nasa.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2016\/novembers-spectacular-supermoon\">NASA<\/a>), this supermoon will be especially \u201csuper\u201d because it\u2019s the closest full moon to Earth since 1948 and people won\u2019t see another supermoon like this until November 26, 2034 (PST).<\/p>\n<p>A supermoon or perigee full moon can be as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than an apogee full moon, which refers to the most distant point of moon from Earth. However, PAGASA noted that a 30% difference in brightness can easily be masked by clouds or the competing glare of urban lights.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for the supermoon tonight at 7:21 p.m. and don\u2019t miss the chance to see the biggest and brightest moon to appear after 68 years.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pagasa.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/transparency\/pagasa-key-officials\/28-astronomy\/424-sky-this-month\">pagasa.dost.gov.ph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2016\/novembers-spectacular-supermoon\">nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out for the supermoon tonight at 7:21 p.m. and don\u2019t miss the chance to see the biggest and brightest moon to appear after 68 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[856,855,858,859,857,860,854,853],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-and-astronomical-services-administration","tag-geophysical","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-pagasa","tag-perigee-full-moon","tag-philippine-atmospheric","tag-supermoon"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/supermoon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}