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Supermoon to light up China's Lantern Festival

A full moon is pictured with a red lantern in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi province, on China's Lantern Festival on March 2, 2018. For Chinese people who have the tradition of going out on the streets to

lanterns on display at the annual Lantern Festival, they will have one more beautiful item to gaze upon值得一看this year– a super large and bright moon.

coincidence will see the biggest and brightest full moon of the year to shine on the night of the festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year.

"A supermoon occurs when the moon is simultaneously full and at

(the point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth). When this happens, the moon appears 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter in the sky than usual," said Hu Fanghao, director of

the Purple Mountain

The supermoon could be seen across China on the night of the Lantern Festival. The ideal viewing time is set to be at 11: 54 pm tomorrow when the moon will be at its fullest.