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Photos: Saturday's super moon brightens LA night
Saturday's"super" moon as seen from Culver City
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The moon, from Trabuco Canyon. Super moons are 14 percent brighter and 30 percent bigger than other full moons.
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Evelyn Grass
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Saturday's "Super" moon peers from behind a treetop in Central Park, Huntington Beach.
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"Super Moon" with airplane
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The super moon glows above buildings at Park La Brea, Mid-Wilshire.
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Aaron T. Harvey
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An instagram of the moon, pictured in Pasadena. According to NASA Science News, the best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon, because low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects.
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Erin Gillin
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A view of the moon, from Burbank.
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Keri Kilgo
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Another glimpse of the moon through folliage, this time in Culver City.
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Shawn K. Riley
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The super moon above Beverly Blvd. stores outshines street lights in this instagram.
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Roxana Jullapat
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KPCC's John Rabe snapped this shot of the super moon from Los Feliz, titling it "Rabbit Moon."
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Los Angeles isn't the prime location for skywatching, but last Saturday brought a celestial phenomenon that couldn't be covered by city smog: a super moon, the biggest full moon of the year.
According to NASA Science News, the moon was the largest it has ever been in 20 years.
We've compiled KPCC listener-submitted photos into a gallery of the spectacle.
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