I saw this posted on another site and thought it would interest some of the sky watchers here.  I realize it happens every year, but it's still neat:

Supermoon

Interesting, I'll be keeping an eye out for it. Here's hoping for clear skies!

I love stuff like this. 

Hope we are clear skies in this neck of the woods too.

 Thanks LadyK.

You're welcome!  I love events like this, too.  I remember standing outside on a frigid winter morning well before dawn to watch Venus disappear behind the moon, then going out again later to watch it appear on the other side.  It's the only occultation like that I've seen, and the diamond ring effect when the planet appeared again was splendid.

I took my children to the observatory so many times when they were little to see Jupiter and Mars and Saturn and all the others that it was a lot of fun.  When the space station (the decommissioned one) flew over Adelaide on its last voyage, the local astronomical society arranged with NASA to have them 'flash' us.  And yep, I was there on the lawn of the observatory watching.  [sigh]  The kids aren't interested anymore so I'm often the only one standing outside on my own. 

This weekend however, due to the prospect of an extra low tide, I think a visit to the seashore is in order.   

Looked at it last night, all the hype and news stories about it I thought it was going to be "huge/big" I couldn't even notice a difference in the size, still a tiny dot in the sky I could block out with my thumb if I put it over it.

however it was EXTREMELY bright last night, like someone shining a flash light into your eye when you looked at it.

It just seemed rather stupidly advertised, if they wanted to get people out to look at the moon/get younger people interested in Astronomy that was a BAD way to do it, calling it a "Supermoon" and every news story had a pic with a giant moon on it.

It was cloudy here, so I didn't get to see it.  

Total cloud cover all weekend and rain so no trip to the beach.  Bummer.  The best viewing time is just after moonrise and before moonset because it will look bigger on the horizon and not overhead.  

It was visible from my place. The striking thing about it wasn't its size (any change wasn't particularly noticeable), but rather that it looked well defined, much clearer or sharper in appearance than usual.

Originally Posted By Andromus (6 MAY 2012 8:26pm)

The striking thing about it wasn't its size [...] but rather that it looked well defined, much clearer or sharper in appearance than usual.

It was lovely. And so bright!

This past weekend I was out in a remote location in the Mid-West where I had been before and normally on a cloudy night it is so dark, you literally can't see your hand in front of your face. But on a clear night, it's wonderful for gazing at zillions of teeny twinkling stars, like lots of micro-L.E.D.s. embedded in the ceiling.

But Saturday night around 11:45 P.M. Mountain Time Zone in Wyoming was crystal clear but the moon was so incredibly illuminating, it outshone the stars. And like Andromus said, the clarity of the surface of the moon was stunning.

This was a real treat for me because during most of my working time I'm ensconced in sheer abject light pollution at night. It ain't healthy for living things to have no dark time especially when sleeping.

A Night to Remember.

[size= x-small](especially when that rattlesnake went after Bobo. I told him not to disturb those eggs)

Our skies here in NJ were clear last night, and the just-one-day-off full moon was sparkling behind the branches of the oak tree in our front yard as I was typing at my computer.  I grabbed my binoculars and went outside to take a good look.  It was so bright and clear even with the naked eye, but with magnification I really got a good look at all the craters on the surface.

We came home from a friends house around 11:00 that night and the back yard was really aglow. Pretty clouidy just a few hours before then and all of a sudden clear as a bell. It was so bright and clear. I imagined it to look bigger though for some reason.

Hubby is an amature astronomer and he built a 6 inch scope years ago, normally he would have had it set up in the back yard but it was a hectic day and my younger son Nick's birthday so we actually forgot about it till later in the evening. I think we could have seen some cool stuff had it been set up but it was still something to behold.