--- description: This weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon title: Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c51a20b2410bb0c/69869eeb35ba6f5ba6c035a2/ap219630811130.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [astronomy](/tag/astronomy/) ## astronomy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 8, 2014 9:55 PM CUT  A supermoon rises above the castle of Somoskoujfalu in Hungary, July 12,2014. A supermoon rises above the castle of Somoskoujfalu in Hungary, July 12,2014.Peter Komka—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 8, 2014 9:55 PM CUT This is the summer of the supermoon, with [three full moons in a row](http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/three-moon-nights-will-real-supermoon-please-stand-n152016 "undefined") that appear bigger and brighter than normal. But this weekend marks the year’s most super-duper supermoon: When the moon rises on Sunday evening, it’ll be as close as a full moon ever gets to Earth during 2014. Purists will protest: At its closest, the full moon is about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than it is at its farthest. That difference is virtually impossible to perceive with the naked eye. It becomes noticeable only when you compare two photos of the full moon taken under the same conditions at different times of year… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/supermoon-hogs-spotlight-sunday-sorry-perseid-meteors-n176291?cid=par-time-article%5F20140808 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/"},"headline":"This Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors)","datePublished":"2014-08-08T21:55:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:34:53.365Z","description":"This weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon","url":"https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/","keywords":["astronomy","Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c51a20b2410bb0c/69869eeb35ba6f5ba6c035a2/ap219630811130.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c51a20b2410bb0c/69869eeb35ba6f5ba6c035a2/ap219630811130.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hungary Moonrise","caption":"Hungary Moonrise","creditText":"Peter Komka—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/astronomy/","name":"astronomy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/","name":"This Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors)"}}]}] ```