Tonight is the first of three super full moons. August 10 and September 9 are the other two. Wikipedia defines the super full moon as
A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.
Read more at July 12 full moon first of 3 full-moon supermoons in 2014 | Tonight | EarthSky.
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