{"id":2704,"date":"2008-12-10T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T02:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/nasa-biggest-full-moon-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:29:30","slug":"nasa-biggest-full-moon-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/nasa-biggest-full-moon-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA &#8211; Biggest Full Moon of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ins style=\"float: right\">[updated 12\/11\/08]<\/ins><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On <strong>Dec. 12th<\/strong>, the Moon becomes full a scant 4 hours after reaching perigee, making it 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we&#8217;ve seen earlier in 2008. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>This is both the brightest and (in the northern hemisphere) the highest-riding full Moon of the year. If you go outside around midnight it will be close to overhead and act like a cosmic floodlamp making the landscape absolutely brilliant, especially if there&#8217;s snow. Full moons are always high during winter and, indeed, the solstice is right around the corner on Dec. 21st.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/09dec_fullmoon.htm\">NASA &#8211; Biggest Full Moon of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thursday, 12\/11, the moon will be nearly as big, rising before sunset.<\/p>\n<p>12\/11: Sunset: 4:54pm<br \/>\nMoonrise: 3:51pm<\/p>\n<p>12\/12: Sunset: 4:54pm<br \/>\nMoonrise: 4:56pm<\/p>\n<p>Times are from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunrisesunset.com\/\">www.sunrisesunset.com<\/a>. The closer you are to the west side of the Sandias, the later the moon rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[updated 12\/11\/08] &nbsp; On Dec. 12th, the Moon becomes full a scant 4 hours after reaching perigee, making it 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we&#8217;ve seen earlier in 2008. \u2026 This is both the brightest and (in the northern hemisphere) the highest-riding full Moon of the year. If you go outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/nasa-biggest-full-moon-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA &#8211; Biggest Full Moon of the Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}