As if to give the summer a proper sendoff, the final "Supermoon" of 2014 will rise the night of Monday, Sept. 8, two weeks before the first day of autumn.
According to National Geographic, the moon was actually closest to the Earth on the night of Sunday, Sept. 7 at 11:38 p.m. ET when it was some 222,000 miles away. However, sky gazers will have one last chance Monday night, as the Supermoon will peak at 9:38 p.m. ET.
Unfortunately, Monday night's Supermoon will not be the brightest this year; that was Aug. 10, when the moon was 221,765 miles away. Monday night's event will make the moon appear 15 percent bigger and seven percent brighter than normal. While it may only be a slightly bigger and brighter Supermoon, it will be the last one of the year.
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"It's the marriage of the two occurrences when we get a brighter and larger-than-normal full moon," Geza Gyuk, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, told Nat Geo. "While this is nothing special from a science perspective, it is no doubt very poetical and very romantic."
Gyuk said it is not important that viewers look upon the moon at exactly 9:38 p.m. ET because it will be full all night.
"Just find a time that is convenient and where you can spend a few minutes just looking and appreciating," he said. "Try and look for the moon when it is near the horizon, that's when it gives an extra thrill, as it appears larger and more colorful than when it is overhead."
Monday night's Supermoon is also known as the "Harvest Moon," EarthSky reported. The name came from the pre-electricity age when farmers were able to harvest their crops under the moon's added brightness. The Harvest Moon will also look like it has a red tint, as if to usher in fall.
