Published May 28, 2021, 9:00 AM
It was in July 2018 when the Philippines saw its last Total Lunar Eclipse, that is why many of us were excited to see the Super Flower Moon eclipse last Wednesday evening, 26 May 2021. What makes the last lunar eclipse special was it being a supermoon, too.
But what is a supermoon? A supermoon is a full moon (or in some cases, a new moon) that almost coincides with perigee, or when the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit. This phenomenon results in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth also known as perigee-syzygy (full Moon around perigee).