--- title: Mini Pink Moon: Watch a Livestream description: As the Earth and Moon move to their farthest points from each other, the full moon appears its smallest to us here on Earth canonical: https://time.com/4299754/mini-pink-moon-live/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-21T15:35:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:50:11.675Z article:section: Science og:title: See a Livestream of a Mini Pink Moon og:description: The Earth and moon usually aren't this far apart og:url: https://time.com/4299754/mini-pink-moon-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1df30cc84962b5a/69888fc5e20a875b6fa907d5/mini-pink-full-moon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: Pink Moon Over Rome og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See a Livestream of a Mini Pink Moon twitter:description: The Earth and moon usually aren't this far apart twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1df30cc84962b5a/69888fc5e20a875b6fa907d5/mini-pink-full-moon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Highlights from the Rise of a Mini Pink Moon > Sponsored content. 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The moon will indeed be mini—this marks the moment when the Earth and moon are farthest apart, making the moon appear smaller than usual—but it won’t actually take on a pink hue. The springtime full moon [earned its name from Native Americans](https://main.slooh.com/event/the-full-pink-moon/), who were likely referencing the pink phlox flowers that bloom this time of year, according to Slooh, a space broadcasting site, and [_The Old Farmer’s Almanac_](https://www.almanac.com/). Slooh will host a livestream of the moon, filmed at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, from 8 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday. Janice Stillman, editor of _The Old Farmer’s Almanac_, will join Paul Cox, Slooh’s host, and Bob Berman, an astronomer with Slooh, to discuss the phenomenon. _Slooh is a TIME partner. You can go to_ [_Slooh.com_](http://live.slooh.com/) _to join and watch this live broadcast, snap and share your own photos during the event, chat with audience members and interact with the hosts, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hello! And welcome to a very special show here at Slooh, presented alongside our partners at the Old Farmer's Almanac. Now tonight, the nearly full moon is at its furthest point from Earth in its orbit. Appearing smaller in the sky than at any other point in the year. So, these two terms Bob, apogee is what's commonly referred to when it comes to moon is when you talk about the mini moon and It coincides with a full moon, or a new moon in fact. Then you use this other term as well, perigee. When it's closest towards the earth. We see another type of moon, we give that another name as well, don't we? [ UNKNOWN ] A super moon is what we've been calling it for the last few years. There it is. This shows it very nicely. There's a Fourteen percent in size difference between the smallest or farthest away possible moon and the closest moon. And there we have them together. Believe it or not, once again, if you actually saw them side by side, if you could, in the next sky. You can't, of course. We only have one moon. You can't ever see two moons ., the farthest away moon next to the closes possible moon. But if you could, It would be right on the edge of what the human eye is capable of noticing. Well, step back a few hundred years before this country was really settled and Native Americans lived here. They, of course, lived all across the country and there were numerous tribes so they were experiencing all kinds of weather and climate cond- Conditions back then. And they actually assigned the moon's names. They didn't have radio or Internet or paved roads and newspapers or date books or anything to kind of keep them on schedule. So they- Or the old Farmers' Almanac. They were very aware of nature. They watched what happened around them. They looked for changes in Signs and one of those was the timing of what happened in nature outside around the time of the full moon. And they became aware that the mosque pink it's a wild ground flosk would appear, would harken the spring And it would appear around the time of fourth full moon just after the winter. So the Algonquins in particular call the moon the pink moon. 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