Three supermoons in a row

Cape Town - If you've missed the one last night, there is still two more chances to see one of the three incredible supermoons to happen 3 months in a row.

Because our celestial neighbour is relatively close to Earth, these full moons will appear to be unusually large. That distance varies because the moon follows an elliptical orbit. When it's close and full, it appears bigger and brighter than normal, although the difference can be hard to detect.

The full moon last night (Saturday, July 12) may have seem to be huge, but it's just an illusion caused by its position in the sky.

Two other supermoons will come later on August 10 and September 9.

Update: Fin24 user Martin Green from East London said in an email to Fin24 that he wasn't even aware of the "supermoon", but still snapped a couple of images of the incredibly big and bright moon on Saturday night.

Using a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS, he took this image (below) of the first of the three "supermoons", which is 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the supermoons of 2013.



Check out these supermoons from around the world:



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