November’s Full Beaver Supermoon Peaks Today—And It Will Be The Year’s Biggest

November’s Full Beaver Supermoon Peaks Today—And It Will Be The Year’s Biggest
November’s Full Beaver Supermoon Peaks Today—And It Will Be The Year’s Biggest A side-by-side comparison of two different moons – credit, Marco Langbroek, the Netherlands, using a Canon EOS 450D + Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar MC 180mm lens / Marcoaliaslama, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Stargazers and Luna-lovers are being spoiled this autumn. Having already enjoyed a late Harvest Moon spectacle in October, they can now follow that up with a second supermoon that will be the largest of 2025. A supermoon is a colloquial term for when the Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth during it’s orbital rotation. This makes the Moon noticeably larger. Annoyingly, the Moon will reach peak brightness after Sunrise—at 8:19 am Eastern Time (13:19 GMT), but tonight (and yesterday night if you happened to see it) it will also be very bright and a few hairs short of full. Incredibly, this is the second of three consecutive supermoons this year. Supermoons tend not to be so super-sized, unless you’…