Tip 'o the backyard telescope to the folks over at EarthSky, who have a skywatcher alert that this Friday, December 12, the full moon will be closer to Earth than it has been for the past 15 years.
If the weather cooperates, viewers will see the whole round, shining face of the moon at its closest approach around 9:45 p.m. UT.
In astro-speak, the moon will be in perigee—the closest the body gets to Earth during its elliptical orbit around our planet. At it's farthest, the moon is considered to be at apogee.
—Illustration courtesy Pearson Scott Foresman
[And now fans of ancient Disney films will know where Angela Lansbury got the words to her spell for turning poor David Tomlinson into a fluffy white rabbit ... ]
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