Sunday, May 6, 2012

Supermoon -2012



This  supermoon was taken from my living room in Areekode , Malappuram , Kerala , India (The clouds added a special dimension to the view )

People in several parts of the world have already sighted the much-awaited super moon 2012. In Asia and many other areas, people have witnessed the biggest and brightest full moon of 2012 .Moon glowed a lot bigger and brighter than it will be on any other night in 2012. The phenomenon, called supermoon. On May 6 at 9.05 pm IST, the distance between the Earth and the Moon was 3,56,955 km, the closest this year, while the angular size of the Moon was 0.5515 degrees. 

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