Look Skyward for Supermoon This Weekend

You won't need a telescope to get an eyeful of the moon on this weekend because the moon will be closer to the Earth than it will be all year — resulting in the largest full moon of 2013.

The so-called "supermoon" happens when the sun, Earth and moon align, and gravity pulls the moon closer to the Earth, according to Cnet.

The moon is expected to "turn full" at 6:32 a.m. Sunday, but you'll still get a good eyeful on Saturday, according to EarthSky.org. The moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual, and will be 221,824 miles away, about 30,000 miles closer than when it's at its farthest from the Earth, according to Cnet.

The is the closest the moon will be to the Earth until August 2014, EarthSky reports.

A Wikipedia item says the term supermoon "is not widely accepted or used within the astronomy or scientific community, who prefer the term perigee-syzygy." But who wants to try pronouncing that?

The best time to photograph a supermoon is when the planet is low on the earth's horizon. 

"For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects," said Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who explains the phenomenon on NASA's website.