Photos: Looking at a super moon, from across the globe
A full moon is also known as the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, Paschal Moon, Hanuman Jayanti, Bak Poya and a “supermoon.” The moon was a full circle on April 7, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 10:35 PM EDT. A look at images from across the world.
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A super pink moon, the biggest and brightest full moon of the year 2020, above India Gate in Delhi. (ANI)
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People on their terraces pictured against the rising moon during India’s 21-day lockdown against the coronavirus in Mumbai’s Versova area. (Ragul Krishnan / HT Photo)
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A view of the full moon in Chandigarh. The moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday night through Thursday morning. (Ravi Kumar / HT Photo)
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The full moon seen against a temple, on day fourteen of the 21 day lockdown against coronavirus, on the outskirts of East Delhi. (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)
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The super pink moon rises over the south end of the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. It gets its name from the herb moss pink, also known as creeping phlox, moss phlox, or mountain phlox, which is native to the eastern USA and one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring. (Ethan Miller / AFP)
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The moon as seen from Goregaon, in Mumbai. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)
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A pink super moon is seen over Belvoir castle in Leicestershire, England. (Danny Lawson / AP)
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The super moon rises in the sky in front of Apollo’s temple, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south-west of Athens. (Petros Giannakouris / AP)
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A pink super moon rises behind a Stalin-era skyscraper seen in downtown Moscow. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)
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