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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.

Stargazers in the state tonight were treated to a rare celestial event: a full so-called supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse, which left the moon shrouded in an eerie red glow. A total lunar eclipse coinciding with a “supermoon” hasn’t happened for 33 years,...

Many earthlings were treated to a rare sight last night, as a “supermoon” coincided with a lunar eclipse.

Sunday’s Blood Moon was the fifth of six supermoons this year alone.

The rare coupling was seen in Canada, the United States, Europe, Africa and western Asia.

Supermoons happen a few times a year, but they rarely coincide with a lunar eclipse, where the moon moves into the earth’s shadow, making it appear eerily blood red.

On Sunday night, the supermoon moved into the Earth’s shadow during a full lunar eclipse which was visible from the Americas, West Africa and Europe. Supermoon, or perigee moon, is the name given when the full or new moon comes closest to the Earth making it appear bigger....

As a result, perigee full moons, also known as supermoons, appear about 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter in the sky than do apogee full moons (which are also called minimoons).

“Because during a total lunar eclipse moon does not become black, but gets a reddish-copper tinge which popularly is mentioned as blood red”, the expert on celestial bodies said.

Doom-mongering had been particularly ramped up as this lunar eclipse combined with a supermoon.

A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in the closest part of its orbit to Earth, meaning it appears larger in the sky. A total lunar eclipse coinciding with a “supermoon” hasn’t happened for 33 years, and won’t be repeated again for another 18 years. At this...

The nights are longer, the temperatures cooler and the bugs will soon be gone. “We’re going to get to watch as the full moon plunges into the ruddy shadow of the earth”. Weather permitting, you can see the supermoon after nightfall, and the eclipse will cast it...

Instagram addicts had to take to their cameras immediately as the next suchlike event will take place in 18 years.

A blood red “supermoon” has appeared in the skies above Ireland for the first time in more than 30 years. This one coincided with a full lunar eclipse, in which the moon, Earth, and sun lined up, with Earth’s shadow totally obscuring the moon.

Columbus knew a blood moon had been forecast, and warned the natives that his god would send an angry “sign” at their treatment of the newcomers.