Thought for the Week: The supermoon

Alastair McIntosh reflects on times of great upheaval

by Alastair McIntosh 18th November 2016

Monday night was a bit of a letdown for watchers of the sky across the greater part of Scotland. It was billed as the night of the ‘supermoon’ – that time, once in a generation, when the moon comes close enough to be bigger and brighter than we have mostly ever experienced.