2018’s first supermoon shines over Antelope Island
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rises over the Wasatch mountains, as seen from Antelope Island, Monday, January 1, 2018.
| Jan. 2, 2018, 1:49 a.m.
| Updated: 2:17 a.m.
A supermoon — the second in a trilogy that began Dec. 3 and will end Jan. 31 — shined on the first day of 2018.
Monday’s was the largest of the three, according to NASA, which defines a supermoon as “a moon that is full ... at or near its closest point in its orbit around Earth.”
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Sunsets over the Great Salt Lake, minutes before the largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rose over the Wasatch mountains, Monday, January 1, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tourists take photos on Antelope Island as the Sunsets over the Great Salt Lake, minutes before the largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rose over the Wasatch mountains, Monday, January 1, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rises over the Wasatch mountains, as seen from Antelope Island, Monday, January 1, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rises over the Wasatch mountains, as seen from Antelope Island, Monday, January 1, 2018.
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