Super moon, April 7/8, Netherlands

This is a photo taken from our garden of the "Supermoon" of April 8, 2020. Or more accurately, a few hours before the offically closest distance to Earth, as there's no way I'm getting up at 4AM for this silly little rock.

A Supermoon is a roughly quarterly event where the moon is new (full) and at its closest distance to Earth in its elliptic trajectory. Technically, it is within 90% of its closest distance. Between the furthest distance and the closest distance, the moon's diameter appears 14% bigger, which results in a 30% brighter appearance.

Yet these are the extreme ends. Between the average distance to Earth and this semi-closest distance, the diameter change is so small that some question whether the human eye can see it at all. Above all, the moon may appear as "super" because it's so low in the sky, appearing more impressive, but not really much bigger.

From the photo, you can see several craters, the most famous one is in the bottom right, named "Tycho". It is "extremely young", as in a 108 million years old. It is almost 5 km deep and has a radius of 85 km. Its ray system, the outwards facing lines, reach up to 1500 km in length.

I don't really have gear to photograph details on the moon clearly, so this one is simply taken with a 80-400mm. The moon was bright enough to focus on, next I had to underexpose by -3EV and that's it.

Check out this other cool moon event, the Blood Moon: