Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon

The last lunar perigee was on July 21 at 20:28 UT.  The distance was 358401 km.  That is only 1412 km farther away than the "supermoon", but it was also 21 hours away from the full moon.  Your observation should correlate pretty well with the "supermoon". From: Norm Hansen <norm.hansen@mtngreen.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon On 7/23/2013 6:25 AM, Chuck Hards wrote:

Can someone check and see if the moon is currently near perigee?  It seemed on the large side this morning.

Hi Chuck, It was at perigee a couple/three weeks ago... it was also at "full" stage, and looked huge. Norm