# Super Moon looks normal to me

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 10, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moon-looks-normal-to-me/695203 "2014-08-10T01:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moon-looks-normal-to-me/695203/21 "2014-08-11T04:41:40Z")

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Tonight’s moonrise was better than last night’s; perhaps because I was in a different part of town. It was lovely, luminous, bright, full, almost magical. (Hush! You know what twilight in summer is like–it is wonderful.)

Crappy cell phone pic: [jane noel on Instagram: "Moooooooony dreamy summer night."](http://instagram.com/p/ri1s_ew198/?modal=true)

Last night: [jane noel on Instagram](http://instagram.com/p/rgheYrQ1wF/?modal=true)

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moon-looks-normal-to-me/695203/22 "2014-08-13T14:25:11Z")

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I didn’t even know we were in a supermoon, but I have noticed it seeming much brighter out at night. But it shouldn’t be that big a difference, should it? I can’t read by it, but I can see the mail when I forgot to get it earlier.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moon-looks-normal-to-me/695203/23 "2014-08-13T15:32:43Z")

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> [@Heckity](#):
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> It looks enormous here in Bancroft, Ontario. I’m at the cottage and there are zero lights to interfere . . . it seems much brighter and definitely bigger.

Doesn’t that remind you of a song by Journey? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moon-looks-normal-to-me/695203/24 "2014-08-13T16:13:38Z")

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[xkcd](http://xkcd.com/1394/)’s take.

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