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Friday, May 4, 2012

Super Moon Appears Saturday

When to catch the moon at its best in 20 years.

Grab your telescopes and cameras and look to the heavens Saturday night. That’s when we’re in for another “Super Moon.” Astronomers are saying that this Super Moon will be even more super than usual. “The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today. This Super Moon (a phrase coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) will appear especially large because the moment of perigee—when the moon is closest to the Earth in its monthly rotation—will coincide with the appearance of a perfectly full moon, Smithsonian points out. During last year’s Super Moon on March 19, 2011, for comparison, the perigee and full moon were 50 minutes apart. On …

Friday, August 26, 2011

In pictures: Hurricane Irene Skirts S.C.

Charleston area waters rise near flood stages.

Hurricane Irene brough high winds and strong surfs to the Lowcountry Friday. High tide was expected around 7 p.m., and an hour or so before that, many low-lying areas were already reaching flood stages. More rain was expected Friday evening. Friday afternoon, the eye of the hurricane was 160 miles off the coast of South Carolina. The storm is expected to brush coastal North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday. A much-weakened Irene will hit New York City on Sunday, prompting the first evacuation there in recent history. Send your photos of Hurricane Irene's effects to chris.winston@patch.com or upload them here.

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11:47 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012

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