In Pictures: Supermoon lunar eclipse

Sky-watchers around the world were in for a treat on Sunday (Sept 27) when the shadow of Earth cast a reddish glow on the moon, the result of a rare combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year. The total "supermoon" lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon", is one that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in its orbit that is closest to Earth.

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Sep 28, 2015, 10:11 AM

The moon seen above a cross channel ferry leaving the port of Dover in southern England on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A boy walking near a local monastery in the settlement of Poschupovo in Russia's Ryazan region on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A supermoon rises in the sky near the Eiffel Tower as seen from Suresnes, western Paris, on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Statues seen silhouetted against the moon in Brussels, Belgium, on Sept 26, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Children looking at the moon in the settlement of Poschupovo in Russia's Ryazan region on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man silhouetted against a full moon at a field in Ronda, southern Spain, on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A supermoon' rising above Brighton in southern England on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A cross atop a local monastery in front of the moon in the settlement of Poschupovo in the Ryazan region of Russia on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

A supermoon, the last of this year's supermoons, rising over a minaret of a mosque in Wadi El-Rayan Lake at the desert of Al Fayoum Governorate, south-west of Cairo on Sept 27, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

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