The moon was full over the weekend, but it was not an ordinary full moon. It was a supermoon. Astronomers describe it as such: Perigee is the point at which the Moon is closest in its orbit to the Earth, and syzygy is a full or new moon, when the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are aligned. Hence, a supermoon can be regarded as a combination of the two, although they do not perfectly coincide each time. Syzygy may occur within a maximum of 12 hours from perigee during a supermoon, and 1 hour from perigee during an extreme supermoon. What we had here was a Perigee-Syzygy :)
The picture above isn't the best, but dad didn't have a tripod with him. He just sat the camera on the top of the car and used the timer button. It'll do.
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