It's the super moon tonight and its amazing how much we take our moon for granted, its only when some unusal occurence happens that we stop to think how beautiful this celestial body in space can be. I really wish I could get the telescope out now to look at it, its been so long since I've had time to appreciate how small we really are in comparison to the whole universe. Today the moon is only less than 2% closer to Earth and yet it feels so strange and wonderful, almost magical. I love it. Yesterday, I gazed out the window and saw my garden bathed in moonlight, so bright I could make out even the trees at the furthest corner of my garden, I wish I'd had someone to share that moment with, because it was one of those that I think left me in momentary awe. Okay so if you want some facts about tonights supermoon:
Tonight the moon is 225,000 miles away from Earth, the gravity of the moon on Earth is only 3% stronger, tides are only 5% stronger, and the moon has nothing to do with any of the disasters we've had according to scientists, we just like seeing correlations where there aren't any to make some sense of the mess we find ourselves in.
So if you're sat inside, and are planning on going straight to bed without taking a look at our sattelite on its "big night", take a peek out from your window, see if you can spot it (it's pretty hard to miss unless you've got heavy cloud cover), and admire the beauty of the night. Our moon.
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