Blue Supermoon will illuminate Park City skies Monday night

full moon in dark night sky Photo: Eileen Rollin

PARK CITY, Utah — August’s rare blue supermoon will appear bigger and brighter than most full moons when it lights up the sky over Park City tonight. NASA says that full supermoons appear approximately 30% brighter and 14% larger than normal full moons.​

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According to NASA, the full moon will reach its peak at 2:26 p.m. ET on Monday. It will be visible for three days, from Sunday morning through early Wednesday morning. The August full moon is also known as the Sturgeon Moon, named after the sturgeon fish that are found in the Great Lakes during this time of the year.

“Although it will not look blue, as the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons, this will be a Blue Moon” Gordon Johnston, Retired NASA Program Executive

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The Sturgeon Moon is expected to be the third full moon in a season of four full moons. According to NASA, supermoons occur about three to four times a year. A supermoon is when the moon rises near or while it reaches its closest distance to the Earth.