On average, the moon is about 380,000km away from the Earth, but in the last few days it has been about 360,000km away, Davison said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people will say that supermoons don\u2019t exist at all, that it\u2019s not a real thing. Whether it\u2019s a supermoon doesn\u2019t matter too much, but yeah, it was a full moon and the moon was near its closest point to Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
While some have also referred to it as a \u201cWolf Moon\u201d, the name given to the full moon in January, Davison said this was an American term not used in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
Other well-known moons included the Harvest Moon and the Strawberry Moon.<\/p>\n
Delphi Murdoch, 5, observes the supermoon over Taup\u014d Bay, on Saturday. Photo \/ Vicki Murdoch<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least to us, here, they don\u2019t mean anything. They are kind of names and nicknames that can be given to full moons at certain times of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last night\u2019s supermoon was \u201cpretty cool to see\u201d, Davison said.<\/p>\n
Supermoons can be about 14% larger than normal and up to 30% brighter than when it is at its smallest. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounds really impressive,\u201d he said, noting it happens every year.<\/p>\n
Depending on a person\u2019s definition of a supermoon, the next one could be next month, or even a year away, but Davison said the full moons before and after a supermoon could be just as remarkable to look at.<\/p>\n
Kiwis have taken to social media to share their snaps of the moon, including Adrienne White, who posted perfectly timed shots of the moon rising behind Auckland\u2019s Sky Tower.<\/p>\n
White told the Herald New Zealand was lucky \u201cthat Mother Nature performed for us\u201d.<\/p>\n
She shot her photo with a long focal point length and crop sensor, which created the magnified effect on the moon.<\/p>\n
\u201cNature never fails to amaze,\u201d wrote another poster, sharing a video of the moon glowing brightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On average, the moon is about 380,000km away from the Earth, but in the last few days it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8212,6927,3043,2070,130304,5511,807,685,8036,111,139,11550,69,691,13028,254,147,2122,9877,88071,392,42512,165,2201,3608,11665,50452],"class_list":["post-215636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-anyone","tag-brighter","tag-call","tag-full","tag-fuller","tag-just","tag-kiwis","tag-last","tag-moon","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nights","tag-nz","tag-or","tag-peak","tag-photos","tag-science","tag-share","tag-skies","tag-sneak","tag-space","tag-supermoon","tag-their","tag-went","tag-were","tag-whatever","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215636","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=215636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}