In the past few years, the media have created quite a bit of hype about “Supermoons”. The moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical. It has an eccentricity of 0.05 and its distance varies from 364,397 kim at its closest, to 406,731 km at its fartherst. If the full moon occurs when it is very close to Earth, it is dubbed a “Supermoon”. Given the name, people expect it to be spectacular in size. Full moon’s that occur at other points in the moon’s orbit are regular full moons. Currently, there is no special name for a full moon that occurs when it is farthest from Earth (Whimpy moon?). These are images of the full moon taken when it was near its farthest from Earth, left, and when it was near its closest to Earth, a “Supermoon”. The maximum difference in size can be about 7%, similar to what is shown here, and is hardly likely to be noticeable to the average naked eye observer.