"Uno" wrote in message . net...
I missed the news from NASA to explain super brightness of the fullmoon last night. Ancient people discovered this 4-5 thousand years ago.
I also watched the moon Saturday night and it seemed brighter than normal, but that was probably because it had rained the two previous days and the air was clean.

However, riding to work on Friday morning I saw the Moon setting in the west, about 6:30am and it was quite a sight; it appeared three times its normal size and had a dark-reddish tint, almost as one would expect Mars to appear, at close range. I am sure the amplification effect was caused by atmospheric lensing.