30.12.2017
Supermoons take place when the moon is at the perigee side of its elliptical orbit around Earth - bringing it about 30,000 miles (50,000km) closer to us than Apogee. The evening of January 31, the lunar obscuration will start at 11:48am UTC and achieve its most extreme at 1:30pm UTC. The Virtual Telescope venture gives a livestream of the January 1 supermoon ascend over Rome's horizon, starting at 4:00pm UTC, and the January 31 overshadow from Australia, starting at 11:30am UTC.