Every four weeks, the Moon embarks on a brand new cycle around the Earth

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Supermoon of 2020 March 9 will be at 6:48 PM on
Monday. The month of October 2020 alone is supposed to include two full moons with second of the two is a blue moon on Oct. 31
The next full moon is scheduled for Feb. 9 at about 2:33 a.m. (ET). This one is called the “Snow Moon.” Why? As the midwinter moon or the second full moon of winter, by the Native American tribes.
March 9, 2020, 1:48 p.m. Worm Moon/Supermoon
April 7, 2020, 10:35 p.m. Pink Moon/Supermoon

Oct. 31, 2020 10:51 a.m. Blue Moon

A BLACK MOON Supermoon will peak to mark the arrival of three astronomical phenomena – but what time is the Black Moon and will you be able to see it? In popular astronomy, a Supermoon appears when a Full Moon or New Moon reaches its point of perigee – its closest orbit above Earth. A New Moon signals the start and end of the monthly lunar cycle when the Sun’s rays fall on the Moon’s far side. When combined on the same night or day, a rare and ominous Black Moon is born. A Black Moon can also describe the second of two New Moons to spawn in a single calendar month.
Several times a year, we hear big news about the supermoon — when the full moon appears largest in our sky. Several times a year, we hear big news about the supermoon when the full moon appears largest in our sky.

Why, however, do we rarely hear about the full moon appearing at its smallest? Why doesn’t this make the headlines? Why don’t we get inflated news reports about this?
Well, get ready. In the often overblown style we hear on TV or read on the internet, let me offer the following: If you step outdoors in the evening and look skyward, you will see a spectacular sight that few have ever seen: the minimoon!

Of course, this is total baloney, just as all the “supermoon” hype is. Neither is all that rare, and neither is all that noticeable the full moon will lie near apogee, its farthest point from Earth and will appear as the smallest full moons every time this happens, what makes a supermoon different? Some lunar perigees are closer than others. The shape of the Moon’s orbit changes over time (thanks to the gravitational influence of the Sun. A November 2016 “supermoon” sets over the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC.

A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth. Early Monday morning, the moon was the closest it has been to Earth since 1948 and it appeared 30 percent brighter and 14 percent bigger than the average monthly full moon.

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