A supermoon is a full moon that appears 30% brighter and 14% larger in the sky when it is at its closest point to Earth throughout its orbit, according to the Met Office.
Between 1.41 and 5.47 am UK time, there was a partial lunar eclipse, which occurs when part of the moon is covered by the Earth’s shadow.
The lunar eclipse would cover about 4% of the moon, according to meteorologist Becky Mitchell of the Met Office, who made this prediction before to the occurrence.
It won’t happen like this again until 2026. When it occurs, though, it will be considerably more striking because 96% of the moon will be hidden by shadows.
At approximately 3.45 am, when the partial lunar eclipse peaked, a shadow was seen across a portion of the supermoon in a photo taken near Wokingham, Berkshire.
A partial lunar eclipse was visible across the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and minor areas of Asia and the Middle East, among other places in the world.
The harvest moon, so named because it is the closest to the autumn equinox and occurs around the time of the traditional harvest festival, was one of the four supermoons that will have occurred by the end of this year.
