Blue supermoon in Zoetermeer

It only happens once every few years: two supermoons in the same month. The second supermoon is called the “blue supermoon.” This special phenomenon can soon be seen in Zoetermeer. If the clouds don’t throw a spanner in the works…

The moon you see on the night of Wednesday, August 30 to Thursday, August 31 is called a “blue supermoon.” The last time this occurred was in January 2018. The next time this phenomenon can be seen again will not be until 2037, according to AD.nl.

Making pictures

Do you want to take beautiful pictures of the blue supermoon above Zoetermeer? Then you have to be ready around 9 p.m. with a good camera (and possibly a tripod), because then the moon will appear in the east. The moon moves low above the horizon toward the south. At 03:35 the moon is closest to the earth and is then at its ‘biggest’.

Blue supermoon

According to science in pictures A supermoon is a full moon that appears on average 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than usual. This is because the moon is closest to the earth. On the night of August 30 to 31, the distance between the moon and the Earth is 363,667 kilometers. The average distance is 384,401 kilometers, according to the website heaven.observe. Because it is the second supermoon in one month, we speak of a blue supermoon.

Blue?

According to the website starwalk.space the term “blue moon” means that there are two full moons in a calendar month. But the origin of the term “blue” for this phenomenon is not clear, according to the site. The English expression does exist once in a blue moonwhich indicates that something occurs rarely.