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Setting supermoon

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October 19, 2016

Peter Lowenstein, a frequent EarthSky contributor in Mutare, Zimbabwe wrote of this past weekend’s full moon:

As dawn was breaking this morning, the supermoon set over Murahwa Mountain near Mutare. A time-lapse of 54 photographs was taken using a tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ-60 camera, and these were used to compile the accompanying thumbnail mosaic.

It also shows how much the sky brightened in just three minutes it took for the moon to disappear.

Thank you, Peter!

This moon was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hunter’s Moon. See more photos here.

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Deborah Byrd (asteroid 3505 Byrd) helps edit EarthSky.org and is a frequent host of EarthSky videos. Deborah created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named in her honor in 1990, a Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2003, and the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society in 2020. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.