How to see the last supermoon of 2020.
. Early risers on May 7 will see the sun rise at 5:46 a.m. local time while the moon sets at 6:06 a.m., so the two will share the sky for a short while. This phenomenon will occur for observers in a relatively wide range of latitudes — in Miami, for example, the sun rises at 6:39 a.m. on May 7, while the moon sets at 6:53 a.m. local time.
From Southern Hemisphere locations such as Cape Town, South Africa, the full moon occurs at 12:45 p.m. local time . Moonrise is at 6:19 p.m. local time, and sunset is at 5:59 p.m., so the sun and moon won't be in the sky at the same time. This has to do with the relative placement of the sun and moon along the, the line in the sky projected by Earth's orbit, and the fact that in the Southern Hemisphere days are shorter because we are approaching winter.
The full moon occurs when the moon is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun. The moon reflects the sun's light to Earth, unless its orbit carries it within the Earth's shadow — a
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