Jakarta. Thousands of people cheered on Monday night in Australia the emergence of the superluna, a show world unpublished for almost 70 years, in which the satellite looks more big and bright.
Shouts of joy and applause erupted in a small beach located to the east of Sydney, where they had gathered thousands of people, when the Moon did briefly see between the two thick grey clouds.
The phenomenon of the superluna arises with the concomitance of two phenomena -the full Moon phase coincides almost with the time in which the star, whose orbit is elliptical, it will be as close as possible to the Earth, giving the impression of being larger and brighter.
“It’s great,” said Aidan Millar-Powell in the middle of a party atmosphere. “People want to see this because it happens once every 100 years. Don’t want to die without being able to say ‘I saw the superluna’”, added Aidan.
More than 18 thousand people had announced that they were going to be on the beach in the page of Facebook created by the author Gavin McCormack.
throughout the day, as you go darker and darker, the inhabitants of all regions of the world will be able to observe this phenomenon, whose last precedent dating back to 1948.
In Hong Kong, hundreds of people gathered on the shore to watch arise the Moon behind the skyscrapers of the city.
“I Never saw a Moon so big,” he told AFP Lee Pak-kan. “The moon is quite orange, is something special” said this resident of Hong Kong.
In Japan, the show was visible in some parts of the archipelago, but not in Tokyo where the sky was cloudy.
“A superluna can be up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a full Moon at its zenith” (the point of its orbit more separate from the Land), according to Nasa.
The Moon will reach its perigee, the closest point to the Earth, to the 11 hours 22 GMT and will be a full 13 hours 52 GMT. In the evening you will see from around the world.
But the show will depend on the weather since you need a clear sky to be able to observe the phenomenon in all its fullness.
The beaches of Bali, the island resort of Indonesia, it is also filled of people and hundreds of surfers were waiting superolas at the time of the superluna, due to the influence of the astro in the tides.
on Monday the Moon will be “only” 356 thousand and 509 km of the Earth (the average distance is 384.400 km).
“you have to go back to the January 26, 1948 to have a sperluna whose distance with respect to the Earth is lower”, explains Pascal Descamps, from the Paris Observatory.
And will have to wait until November 25, 2034 for the Moon to move closer to us, he explains.
in Addition, “as the system Earth/Moon is about the time of the year that is closest to the Sun (January 4, 2017), the Moon will receive more Sunlight than usual, which also will increase its apparent brightness”, explains the Association Astronomical Irish (IAA).
If weather conditions allow it can be viewed from all sides. The show will be for all the world and observable to the naked eye.
But with binoculars or a telescope you will be able to scrutinize as never before the surface of the moon. In some countries, such as Thailand, the authorities put telescopes available to the public in several cities.
In Taiwan, the Museum Astronomical Taipei, installed several telescopes in the center of the city. Many fans of the space-based observations gathered in the summit of the Tower 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world.
instead, New Delhi-the thick cloud of pollution that covers the sky for several days hinders the observation, so many inhabitants left the city to admire the Moon.
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