Supermoon + total lunar eclipse!

Image via U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommons

Ah, another supermoon but with a twist as it includes a lunar eclipse as well. :)

The Moon appears 12% bigger when it is closest to Earth compared with its appearance when it’s farthest away. Tomruen/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA

You really can see the difference, particularly with the increase in illumination. As for the eclipse, the east coast will not see the total but that's ok, right? :)

Why the supermoon, well ...

The Moon’s orbit is not a perfect circle as it slowly rotates around Earth.Rfassbind/WikimediaCommons

 The Moon’s orbit around Earth is not perfectly circular. This means the Moon’s distance from Earth varies as it goes around the planet. The closest point in the orbit, called the perigee, is roughly 28,000 miles closer to Earth than the farthest point of the orbit. A full moon that happens near the perigee is called a supermoon.

Factoids rule as do supermoons. :)