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Big Moon Rising This Weekend

Star-gazers who missed December's perigee get a second chance to look up Saturday

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(Newser) – Star-gazers are hoping for clear skies this evening, when the full moon will make its biggest and brightest appearance of 2009. As it rises at sunset, the moon will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than the year's subsequent moons, Space.com reports. The show—the result of the moon making its closest pass to Earth—will be almost as dazzling tomorrow, too, and ocean tides will be higher.

The full moon rises over Fayetteville, N.C., on Dec. 12, 2008.
The full moon rises over Fayetteville, N.C., on Dec. 12, 2008.   (AP Photo)
A full moon rises above apartments in Minsk, Belarus, late Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
A full moon rises above apartments in Minsk, Belarus, late Wednesday, June 18, 2008.   (AP Photo /Sergei Grits)
A full moon rises over Mexico City's Independence Monument on Dec. 12, 2008. The moon was one of the brightest in recent years in the normally smog-shrouded city.
A full moon rises over Mexico City's Independence Monument on Dec. 12, 2008. The moon was one of the brightest in recent years in the normally smog-shrouded city.   (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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