Full Moon Close-up

Earth set for full moon close-up

On 13th Dec 08, we went to Clarke Quay planning to take some X'mas photo. However to great disappointment there's nothing much we what we expected. The only attraction is only an indoor ice skiiing, which attracted a lot of children. Fortunately, there's the famous Hokkaiddo Ice Cream to compensate the disappointment! Haha..we chosen the black seseam @ $3.80/cup this time...yummmy..yummmy..sitting by the riverside, enjoying the ice cream and the full moon! Wondering why the moon tonight is so much difference from the usual. (extra huge, juz like a gigentic egg yolk).

It is actually the day, a full moon is set to occur closer to the Earth that Friday evening than it has done for the past 15 years. We watched the full moon raised, from hiding behind the tall buildings to sitting side by side to the Swisstol hotel!

The moon is so close to earth, that it appears so bright and larger than other full moon this year. Cos, it will be a little over 350,000km away as it passes over the northern hemisphere, which is about 30,000km closer than usual. It's only every few years that a full moon happens to coincide with the part of the Moon's orbit when its closest to the Earth

The Moon's orbit is elliptical, meaning it does not follow a circular but rather an oval path. It is currently approaching the point where this oval orbit is nearest to the Earth.