Super Duper Perigee Moon Over Roosevelt Island And Queensboro Bridge Saturday Night - Did You See It?

Wow - did you see the super large moon over Roosevelt Island and the Queensboro Bridge last Saturday's night?

Image From Jay

NASA Science News explains the phenomenon: 

The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. If a moonbeam wakes you up on the night of May 5th, 2012, you might want to get out of bed and take a look. This May’s full Moon is a "super Moon,” as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons of 2012.

The scientific term for the phenomenon is "perigee moon." Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. The Moon follows an elliptical path around Earth with one side ("perigee") about 50,000 km closer than the other ("apogee"). Full Moons that occur on the perigee side of the Moon's orbit seem extra big and bright.

Such is the case on May 5th at 11:34 pm Eastern Daylight Time1 when the Moon reaches perigee. Only one minute later, the Moon will line up with Earth and the sun to become brilliantly full. The timing is almost perfect.

Except that the moon in the picture above is not real but was photoshopped by Jay. Also, Gothamist reports that clouds on Saturday night obscured views of the super duper moon over New York City:

... SuperMoon turned out to be a superfail—it was too cloudy in NYC to see the lunar phenomena.

but last night, the cloud cover over Roosevelt Island was gone. Roosevelt Island photographer and photo blogger Olya Turcihin (Olya's Urban Journal) captured the moon over New York City the night after perigee.

Images From Olya Turcihin

and here's more between the moon and New York City.

You Tube Video of Between The Moon and NYC