Super Moon

March-Hare | 01:50 Sun 10th Aug 2014 | Science

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Suggestions on where to go to view the above clearly tomorrow .
..... within 15 miles of Birmingham please!

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Buenchico

Late tomorrow evening the moon will be positioned roughly to the North (or NNW if you're being pedantic). So you'd need to seeking a location where light pollution to the north was minimal. That rules out central Birminham and anywhere to the south of the city. Ideally you would need to be somewhere around the M6/M54 junction. (i.e. on the northern edge of Wolverhampton or to the west of Cannock). However the cloud cover isn't expected to fully clear until around midnight.

If you don't get to see it, remember that (although Super Moons are quite rare) there's another one on 9th September. (The moon will be roughly in the same location, but just a bit to the east, so the same viewing points will apply)

Answer sourced from these sites:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/supermoon-2014-all-you-need-to-know-about-this-sundays-supermoon-9658849.html

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/moon-phase-and-position

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2655603

and from looking at a road atlas!

Buenchico

^^^For pedants:
'Tomorrow evening' does, of course, mean Sunday in that post, so perhaps I should have typed 'this evening'.

weecalf

Is the forecasted rain going to effect the clarity?

mibn2cweus

The Moon will never appear to be directly 'to the north' for anyone north of 29 degrees north latitude. The Moon's declination is currently about -11.5 (that's minus) degrees.

mibn2cweus

For Londoner's the Moon will rise at about 8pm (a little later for points west) a little (about 18 degrees) south of East. Look for it from an unobstructed horizon to the east-south-east.

mibn2cweus

Make that 7pm BST, (8pm Universal Time).

mibn2cweus

Warley Woods

mibn2cweus

Make that 8pm BST, (19:00 Universal Time)