Supermoon or UFO?

Taken last night from the backyard looking southeast around 10:30 pm.

 

This blob of light is either one of those supermoons or the Mothership from Close Encounters descending from the cloud cover.

 

Oh, what’s a supermoon? It’s the Moon observed at perigee, the closest point in its orbit to Earth, while it’s also Full. They say tonight’s one is the last occurrence in 2022.

 

Here’s a marginally better pic, taken from my driveway a few minutes later:

 

 

 

It’s not the late afternoon Sun taken with a filter over the lens. No, it’s just an ol’ supermoon, captured with your average iPhone, never a good piece of photographic equipment to memorialize the heavens.

 

Sadly, it’s not a Mothership, either.

 

PS. Look for the Perseid meteor showers later tonight in the northeast. They’ll be fighting with a Full-ish Moon for your eye’s attention, but if you’re far from other sources of light pollution you should see ’em.

PPS. Also note canine at the bottom of the first pic, sitting there hypnotized by that supermoon.