A tranquil moment is grasping at Belarusian sky, where a prevailing Minsk wind with aboriginal silent is daring to dance again with festive supermoon behind a cross on a church for the last time of this year.
On the other hand, Buddhist at the Kande Viharaya Monk in Aluthgama of Sri Lanka is preparing their final hours of Poya, a full-moon religious festival.
It is because the supermoon, also known as “Harvest Moon”, will be seen to night with 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than regular one for the last time of 2014. The earth-dwellers would be able to see off with naked eyes.
On 10 August 2014, the moon was first seen with the unbelievable closest view.
It is also called “Harvest Moon” because of its status as the full moon closest to the Northern Hemisphere’s autumnal equinox on September 22nd. The tradition is that the bright moon helps light the way for farmers bringing in their crops late into the evening.
What is a supermoon?
A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.
The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. The term “supermoon” is not astronomical, but originated in modern astrology.
Source: Prothom Alo
