'Supermoon'

It's a rare lunar double feature!

A supermoon for Independence Day Eve!

The peak of this year's Perseid meteor shower may be outshined by the last supermoon of the year -- the Sturgeon Moon -- when both take center stage Thursday night.

In Wyoming, we'll see a supermoon, a blue moon, and a total lunar eclipse, all at once. Peak timing will be 6:29 am, while our local sunrise will be at 7:11 am.

This full moon will be not only the closest and brightest supermoon of 2016, but will also be the largest since 1948, some 68 years ago.

This month’s full moon will be the largest and closest to Earth in nearly 70 years and will be the closest the Moon will get to Earth until 2034.

Hopefully the clouds will burn off at some point today.

For 1 hour and 11 minutes, the heavens will provide the entertainment and grandeur of the planetary dance and the resultant, Supermoon. That’s where a new or full moon will be at it’s closest to earth in it’s elliptical orbit around our planet...

The full moon on Saturday appears to be unusually large. There’s a name for this. A ''supermoon,'' occurs when a full moon is relatively close to Earth because the moon follows an elliptical orbit, not a circular orbit. It appears bigger and brighter than normal...

Amateur astronomers may want to dust off their telescopes, because a massive full moon — aka a “supermoon” — will arrive this weekend and it’ll be the year’s biggest.