Although the moon is officially "super" on Feb. The moon will be at its closest at 4:07 a.m. EST (1553 GMT), it will be about six hours past perigee. When the Snow Moon becomes officially full on Feb. You can see 's full coverage of the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse here. That full moon peaked 14 hours before the moon was actually closest to Earth it reached perigee on Jan. 21, when the moon reached its fullest phase at 12:16 a.m. The first supermoon of 2019 happened on Jan. So, the long axis of the moon's elliptical path around the Earth points in different directions, meaning that a full (or new) moon won't always happen at apogee or perigee. ![]() Supermoons don't happen every month because the moon's orbit changes orientation as the Earth goes around the sun. Learn what makes a big full moon a true 'supermoon' in this infographic. ![]() Supermoons can appear 30 percent brighter and up to 14 percent larger than typical full moons.
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