2025 has been blessed with three consecutive supermoons in the autumn skies, with the final one of the trio visible tonight over the United States.

It will crest the horizon at just after 5:00 pm, which depending on your latitude in the eastern United States may already be twilight, and therefore give a great chance to see it shining near the horizon where it appears largest.

A supermoon is a colloquial name for when our satellite reaches perigee, or the point of its elliptical orbit around the Earth when it’s the closest to us. This is the opposite of apogee, when the Moon reaches its farthest point.

When the Moon is full at perigee, it’s called a supermoon, and when full at apogee, it’s called a “micromoon.”

A supermoon appears 8% larger than a normal full moon, and 14% larger than a

See Full Page