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‘Supermoon’ over the Peconic River

By Vera Chinese

GARRET MEADE PHOTO | A supermoon hangs over New Suffolk Saturday night.

Saturday’s full moon looked 14 percent bigger than average thanks to a rare phenomenon known as a “supermoon.”

A supermoon occurs when the moon’s axis is at its perigree, or its closest point to earth, according to NASA. The event last occurred on March 8, 1993.

The large moon was clearly visible from the banks of the Peconic River about 8 p.m. Saturday night. Cloud cover prevented the moon from being seen at sunset, when it would have appeared at its biggest.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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