{"id":113723,"date":"2016-12-12T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113723"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:12:19","slug":"when-to-catch-the-last-of-decembers-supermoons-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113723-when-to-catch-the-last-of-decembers-supermoons-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"When to catch the last of December&#8217;s supermoons in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth \u2014 a so-called supermoon, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/34515-supermoon-guide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The last of these supermoon trifecta can be viewed at 02:05 on 14 December (Wednesday) SAST, but will appear full to the casual observer the night before and after the main event.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, December&#8217;s full moon falls on the same night as the peak of the Geminid meteor shower.<\/p>\n<p>The light of the full moon will reduce visibility of said shower &#8220;five to ten fold,&#8221; according to a statement from NASA, however you should be able to catch 5-10 shooting stars\u00a0an hour.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113627-south-african-photo-named-national-geographics-best-of-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">South African photo named National Geographic\u2019s best of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s when you can catch the last of the supermoons in South Africa this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":110506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,23357,23230,18249],"class_list":["post-113723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-december","tag-supermoon","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113727,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113723\/revisions\/113727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}