Check out these dazzling photos of the ‘Supermoon’

But there will be a few hours on either side of that time period when you’ll be able to see the shadow passing over the moon, weather permitting.

On Sunday evening, the supermoon began to dim slightly at 8:11 p.m. EDT (0011 GMT on September 28).

Astronomers, photographers and amateur stargazers stayed up into the early hours yesterday for the rare sight of a “supermoon” coinciding with a lunar eclipse. According to NASA, the last time this happened was in 1982, and it won’t occur again until 2033.

Saudi Arabia’s sky witnessed at dawn on Monday a total lunar eclipse which started at 4:007 a.m. At 5:11 a.m., Earth’s satellite appeared bathed in blood-red light.

Tonight’s supermoon will not only look brighter and larger than usual, it’s also the closest encounter with Earth for the calendar year of 2015, coming within 221,754 miles of our planet. “This filtering is caused by particulates in our atmosphere; when there have been a lot of fires and/or volcanic eruptions, lunar eclipses will appear darker and redder”. The relatively close proximity to the earth will result in a larger looking moon. Also shown below is his structuring of the Blood Moon by collating the live photos taken during the entire event as it unfolded.

A supermoon is seen at the finish of a lunar eclipse behind an Orthodox church in Turets, Belarus, 110 kilometers west of capital Minsk on Monday.

What is a lunar eclipse?

27, eclipse will be the fourth and last eclipse of a tetrad, a series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses over two years. That shadow isn’t flawless, so faint sunbeams sneak around the shadow’s edges on all sides in the colors of a sunset, bathing the moon in brilliant, warm hues. Skywatchers from the Americas, Europe, Africa and certain parts of Asia experienced the dramatic event that lasted 72 minutes.