Full Moon Rising And Earth shadow, Belt of Venus in east after sunset

A.   Full Moon Rising

There's a full moon rising saturday night, One so big and so close you might be tempted to reach out and touch it. Not quite though. While it's close, it't still 220, 864 miles from earth.
''Watching the full moon rise is always a beautiful thing'' says Kevin D.conod plantearium manager and astronomer at the Newark Museum Dreyfuss Plantearium.
On saturday night it promises to be just a little bit more a super ''Perigee Moon''- the biggest in almost 20 years. ''I'd say it's world a look,'' said Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C
The weather is expected to be clear for the full moon rising. It doesn't matter where you view it, just set your sights on the eastern horizon at 7:28 p.m
And despite claims it's a bad moon rising, well that's just talk, he said ''There's a lot of hype surrounding the event'', Conod said, Some people are claiming that because the moon is closes. It can cause big earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, which isn't true this full moon is only about 2 percent closer that average

 

 

 

 

 

 

B. Earth shadow, Belt of Venus in east after sunset

Earth's shadow, which can be seen any clear evening ascending in the eastern sky at exactly the same rate that sun sets below the western horizon. The shadow is a deep blue-grey or darker than the blue of the twilight sky.
The pinkish part above the shadow is called the belt of Venus.
The shadow of the earth is big. You might have to turn your head to see the whole thing. And the shadow is curved, in just the same way that the whole Earth is curved. Earth's shadow extends hundreds of thousands of miles into space, so far that it can touch the moon. Whenever that happens, there's an eclipse of the moon.
Check out Earth's shadow in the east at sunset next time you have a clear sky. I often see it while out on the streets of my town as the sun is setting.
By the way, this image shows more or less the same ''Moon Phase'' that you' ll see tonight it' ll be a waxing gibbous moon that' ll be visible in the east after sunset this evening. Full moon will come in the morning aurs of April 28, 2010 according to U.S.clocks.
This image is the full moon at ''Woomera missle range'' in Australia.