LONDON: But what was happening in pop culture the last time a “supermoon” made an appearance? Hundreds of millions of people caught a glimpse of the lunar eclipse Sunday night.
The eclipse coincided with a ‘supermoon, ‘ which means the moon was about as close to Earth as it gets. There have been just five such events since 1900 (in 1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982).
On its elliptical path around the Earth, moon sometimes comes closest to the earth, the portion being called perigee. It was the first time that both a supermoon and lunar eclipse have simultaneously appeared since 1982, and they won’t again until 2033.
The next total lunar eclipse that we will be able to see from Birmingham and the rest of the United Kingdom is on July 27, 2018. In Europe, the action unfolded before dawn Monday. In Los Angeles, a large crowd filled the lawn of Griffith Observatory while many others staked tripods with telescopes around the hilltop landmark in anticipation of the rare celestial sight.
