Really Big Moon Sunday Night!

On June 23, the moon turns full at 6:32 a.m. CDT(1132 GMT),and just 32 minutes earlier it will arrive at its closest point to the Earth in 2013 at a distance of 221,824 miles, making it a so-called supermoon.Expect a large range in ocean tides (exceptionally low to exceptionally high) for the next few days.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/31/must-see-stargazing-events-in-2013/#ixzz2WjG3E1xe

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on June 20, 2013. View the original page.

Author: Jerry Katz

Jerry Katz is the creator of Opelika Daily News. A former broadcaster, he has been writing about Opelika for more than twenty years — first as a blogger, now as the one-person newsroom behind this site. He curates the region's local news daily, writes the Katz Ramblings column and the weekly From the Archives look-back, and maintains an archive of more than 3,200 posts reaching back to 2002. He lives in Opelika. Reach him at jerry@opelikadailynews.com.

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