The moon will put on its largest and brightest show of the year when the night falls on November 5, according to astronomers' forecast. The moon will reach its fullest at around 21:19 on Nov 5, followed by perigee at 06:27 on Nov 6, when it will be about 357,000 kilometers from Earth. This marks the closest approach among all full moons in 2025, making the Nov 5 moon the year's largest, commonly known as a supermoon. "The supermoon captures tremendous attention every year. The biggest full moon and the smallest differ in diameter by about 14 percent, with a surface area variance of up to 30 percent. The numerical disparity is quite significant. However, in reality, such a size difference is not easily discernible to the naked eye," said Kou Wen, senior engineer at the Beijing Planetarium. According to the expert, a supermoon occurs when a full moon takes place near or at perigee, the closest point in the Moon's elliptical orbit around Earth. "Astronomically, it is not termed a supermoon but a perigee full moon, occurring when the full moon is near its closest point to Earth. So what's the counterpart? It's the apogee full moon at the farthest point," Kou said. SHOTLIST: FILE: China - 2024 1. Various of supermoon rising up; Beijing, China - Recent 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Kou Wen, senior engineer, Beijing Planetarium (partially overlaid with shot 3): "The supermoon captures tremendous attention every year. The biggest full moon and the smallest differ in diameter by about 14 percent, with a surface area variance of up to 30 percent. The numerical disparity is quite significant. However, in reality, such a size difference is not easily discernible to the naked eye."; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 3. Various of screen showing difference between full moon at apogee, perigee; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] FILE: China - 2024 4. Various of supermoon rising up; Beijing, China - Recent 5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Kou Wen, senior engineer, Beijing Planetarium (ending with shot 6): "Astronomically, it is not termed a supermoon but a perigee full moon, occurring when the full moon is near its closest point to Earth. So what's the counterpart? It's the apogee full moon at the farthest point."; FILE: China - 2024 6. Various of supermoon rising up. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]