Viewfinder: The Bridge to Moon

We looked to the heavens Saturday night to catch a glimpse of the super . How ironic that our moon photos also captured the Sewickley Bridge, which leads to Moon and Crescent townships.  

Astronomers say the Super Moon was the closest it has been to Earth in nearly 20 years. To be exact, the moon was 221,802 miles away from Earth Saturday night; (the average distance is 238,855 according to NASA.) That’s 17,053 miles closer.

“The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today.

This all translates to a moon that appeared 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons this year, according to NASA.

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