... Micro Moon over Super Moon . 21.01.2014 . Did you see the big, bright, beautiful Full Moon last Wednesday night? ... On that night, the smallest Full Moon of 2014 reached its full phase only a few hours from lunar apogee, the time of its the most distant point from Earth in the Moon's elliptical orbit. ... How large do things appear when far away? When peering across the universe, the answer can actually tell us about its average gravitational history and hence its composition. ...