{"id":215197,"date":"2026-01-03T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:12:18","slug":"how-to-see-first-supermoon-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215197\/","title":{"rendered":"How to see first supermoon of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/supermoon.png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"A supermoon from 2025.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Dr Brenda Midson \/ SUPPLIED\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A supermoon from 2025.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Dr Brenda Midson \/ SUPPLIED<\/p>\n<p>Stargazers can expect to see the first supermoon of the new year tonight if skies are clear.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ryan Ridden from the University of Canterbury said a supermoon is when a full moon at its closest point to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>He said it will appear to be 10 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than a normal full moon.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden said anyone with a view out to the northeast should be able to see the supermoon, and moonrise is roughly 9.40pm. He also added it will be visible throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with all astronomical objects it&#8217;s usually better to be in the middle of nowhere to limit light pollution, but the moon is pretty bright so you&#8217;ll be able to see it from cities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ridden said the moon is &#8220;hanging out near Jupiter&#8221; at the moment, so when you are looking at the supermoon, the bright star just to the south will be jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The other two supermoons will happen later this year in November and December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583109\/first-supermoon-of-2026-to-light-up-new-zealand-skies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/010126.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A supermoon from 2025.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Dr Brenda Midson \/ SUPPLIED Stargazers can expect to see the first supermoon of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-215197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}