![[OC] The full moon on Monday appeared about 6% larger than the "average" full moon this year.](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/5n7j2268rztf1-1536x752.png "[OC] The full moon on Monday appeared about 6% larger than the “average” full moon this year.")
I made this because my local paper keeps saying that was "14% larger than a typical" full moon in their articles, which is just incorrect 😅.
Data on the apparent size (arminutes) is from astropixels.com. The simple bar chart was made with google sheets and text/annotations added in photoshop.
Posted by Btrex
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How is this measured? What’s an arcminute? (I guess its like a degree of a circle of the sky?)
I always heard that the moon just appears bigger to our human brain when its in the same view as trees or things that we know the size of. I feel like a measuring instrument would not be sensitive to that so…is that not true? Is it actually larger in the sky sometimes?
A 6% increase in radius is about 13% bigger in area