'Super' Full Moon Saturday, NASA Says

Assuming a cloud cover doesn't drift along and block the view, the largest full moon in nearly two decades will be visible tonight over our area. 

A co-called super "perigee moon" will rise in the and be about 15 percent larger than usual, according to a NASA Science News article. A Nasa video hosted by Youtube.com is attached to this article as well. 

 In Northport that means if you are standing at the foot of Main Street looking at the water, turn around and look staight ahead. If you are standing at the Northport station platform, look toward the and  

It will be closer to the Earth than it's been since March 1993. 

From the article:

Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit.

"The full Moon of March 19 occurs less than one hour away from perigee—a near-perfect coincidence that happens only 18 years or so," Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. said in the article.

, or "perigean tides," could come with the perigee full moon, but only up to about six inches at most.

The best time to look, according to NASA Science, is when the moon is near the horizon.

And although it might seem as though its hanging low from the sky, the NASA report explained, even a super perigee moon is still 356,577 km away.

Additional reporting by Meredith Skrzypczak.