Super Moon Over Roosevelt Island and New York City East River Waterfront Last Saturday Night- Learn About the Super Moon From NASA

You Tube Image Of Super Moon Over Roosevelt Island & NYC East River

Did any of you happen to see the Super Moon over Roosevelt Island last Saturday night/Sunday morning? If not, you can thank debnewman who uploaded a short video to You Tube for this view of the Super Moon over Roosevelt Island and reports:

Short video of the "Super Moon" taken at 9:30pm on March 19, 2011 on the footbridge at 71st Street and the East River in NYC. Taken with a shaky Flip camera facing east towards Roosevelt Island, with a pan up the river to the Triboro bridge, and back down again to the super moon

NASA's Science News explains a Super Moon:

... On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.

"The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say it's worth a look."

Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit

"The full Moon of March 19th occurs less than one hour away from perigee--a near-perfect coincidence¹ that happens only 18 years or so," adds Chester....

You Tube Super Moon Video From NASA