{"id":10012,"date":"2012-05-07T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T21:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:10:26","slug":"looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Up at the Supermoon From Texas (and Beyond)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10012 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/the-supermoon-is-seen-from-mexico-city\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942629-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942629-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942629-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942629-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10046'>\n\t\t\t\tThe &#8220;supermoon&#8221; is seen from Mexico city on 05 May 2012.  The full moon on this day, the biggest of the year, is at 352.947 Kms, the shortest distance to earth in the year. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/volvo-ocean-race-2011-2012-leg-6-start-itajai-to-miami\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143953077-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143953077-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143953077-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143953077-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10045'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Supermoon, as seen from onboard Groupama Sailing Team during leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 on May 5, 2012 from Itajai, Brazil, to Miami, North America.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/moon-appears-bigger-and-brighter-as-its-closer-to-earth-than-normal-4\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944343-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944343-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944343-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944343-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10041'>\n\t\t\t\tA perigee moon, or SuperMoon, rises behind wind turbines on May 5, 2012 near Palm Springs, California. The moon appears especially big and bright during this once-a-year cosmic event as the full moon is at its closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit. The perigee side of its orbit is about 31,000 miles closer than the opposite, or apogee, side. The bright light of the full moon also hides all but the brightest meteors of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, the remnant debris trail of Halley&#8217;s Comet. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/moon-appears-bigger-and-brighter-as-its-closer-to-earth-than-normal-2\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944447-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944447-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944447-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143944447-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10033'>\n\t\t\t\tA perigee moon, or supermoon, rises behind wind turbines on May 5, 2012 near Palm Springs, California. The moon appears especially big and bright during this once-a-year cosmic event as the full moon is at its closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit. The perigee side of its orbit is about 31,000 miles closer than the opposite, or apogee, side. The bright light of the full moon also hides all but the brightest meteors of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, the remnant debris trail of Halley&#8217;s Comet\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/the-supermoon-is-seen-may-5-2012-fro\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942348-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942348-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942348-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/143942348-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10031'>\n\t\t\t\tThe &#8220;supermoon&#8221;  is seen May 5, 2012 from Chevy Chase, Maryland. The biggest and brightest moon of the year is due to the moon being at its closest point to the earth during its orbit. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/7147058433_3e0eb39204_z\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7147058433_3e0eb39204_z-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7147058433_3e0eb39204_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7147058433_3e0eb39204_z-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7147058433_3e0eb39204_z-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10019'>\n\t\t\t\tA haze obscured many views of the supermoon in Texas.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/7146960693_89cef3c1d9_z\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7146960693_89cef3c1d9_z-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7146960693_89cef3c1d9_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7146960693_89cef3c1d9_z-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7146960693_89cef3c1d9_z-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10018'>\n\t\t\t\tIt was a bit cloudy when the Super Moon made its appearance.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/07\/looking-up-at-the-supermoon-from-texas-and-beyond\/7001478956_700861a2aa_z\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7001478956_700861a2aa_z-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7001478956_700861a2aa_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7001478956_700861a2aa_z-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/7001478956_700861a2aa_z-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10016'>\n\t\t\t\tAs seen rising over the mexican american cultural center in Austin, Texas\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Parts of Texas got a peek at one of the coolest lunar moments of the year last weekend. In the late hours of Saturday night, the earth was graced with a close-up of the moon when a full moon hit at the same time as the moon\u2019s nearest orbit to earth (the technical term is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supermoon\">perigee-syzygy<\/a>, but \u201csupermoon\u201d is admittedly more fun). The moon was about<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/supermoon-photo-120507.html\"> thirty percent brighter and fourteen percent bigger<\/a>, which made it the biggest full moon of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the East Coast got clouded out and couldn\u2019t see the full lunar glory, and Central Texas was hit by severe thunderstorms right as the peak of the supermoon occured. But other parts of Texas were blessed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/national\/150229665.html\">intermittently clear skies<\/a> to witness the event. In the slideshow above, you can see images of the supermoon taken across Texas and other parts of the world. Discovery News also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/supermoon-submission-120507.html]\">slideshow with photos submitted by reader<\/a>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Texas got a peek at one of the coolest lunar moments of the year last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":10046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}