The moon looks from the largest earth in 15 years

The image of the moon last night in many parts of the world has the largest size in the last 15 years, because the position between the moon and the earth is nearly 30,000 km more than usual.

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Full moon in the city of San Francisco, USA.Photo: AP.

The moon orbits the earth in an orbit 28 days long in oval shape, so the distance between the two planets is always changing. The closest position between the two planets in this rotation is called the near-point. The night through the moon has a distance of more than 350,000 kilometers with the earth, nearly 30,000 kilometers more than usual and this is the biggest close since 1993.

What is particularly close-up is rarely coinciding with the full moon, but last night was a rare night meeting both of these elements, so the moon observed from bright and larger earth than usual. NASA Space Agency experts calculated that the moon last night was 14% larger and 30% brighter than other nights this year.

The director of Los Angeles Griffith Observatory Ed Krupp added: "We rarely see the full moon at the time of approaching the middle of the two planets, so last night was a very special event." According to Dr. Marek Kukula, of the Royal Imperial Observatory, the largest looking moon at the time of the moon's rise and sunset is only caused by hallucinations.

"When the moon is near the horizon, our brain receives and analyzes that the moon is larger than normal and this phenomenon is called hallucination," Kukula added. Another astronomer from the British Royal Astronomical Society, Robert Massey, agrees: "The moon size is most prominent when it is near the horizon".