--- title: Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) description: This weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon canonical: https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-08T21:55:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:34:53.365Z article:section: Science og:title: Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) og:description: This weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon og:url: https://time.com/3094351/supermoon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c51a20b2410bb0c/69869eeb35ba6f5ba6c035a2/ap219630811130.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Hungary Moonrise og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) twitter:description: This weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c51a20b2410bb0c/69869eeb35ba6f5ba6c035a2/ap219630811130.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors) > Sponsored content. 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Peter Komka—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 8, 2014 9:55 PM UTC 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) 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. 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