It's called a supermoon because the moon is at its closest to the Earth.

There are some who think that because the moon is at it's closest and also will be reddish looking that this means that the world is about to come to an end.

It all happens a bit too early in the morning for me unfortunately. 

I'm sure there will be plenty of footage taken.

Bugger!  Now we'll never know how Rob gets his come-uppance in 'The Archers'

He was a total tool tonight  

I doubt I'll be awake, but I'd love to see it.

I think there is a cloud cover where I am at the moment or it could be the barrage of fireworks that have been going off.

Why fireworks in September?

I'm not sure Yogi, maybe it's another religious festival. Is there more than one type of Eid?

I'm going to try and stay awake 

Yes, I'm sure there's more than one.

Eid-al-adha follows the Hajj, maybe it's for that?

• Sep 24, 2015
• Religious
• Also Called: Eid-Al-Adha, Bakri Id

Good luck Dame, hope you manage to get a good view.

Snap.

Forecast for here is for full cloud cover, so I'm unlikely to see anything - whether I.m up at that time or not!

I'm going to try and stay awake ....I think it's going to be a clear night here 

Ha, so much for the forecast! I have just looked out and was almost blinded by the shiny full moon hovering above the treetops.

*EC goes to check the skies*

I CAN SEE IT

I CAN SEE IT

Hopefully I can get a snap before bed.

Sorry El I missed this one last night when I started the other one.

Here's a couple more I took of the moon at around 1.30 am.

You'll have to wait for the ones that I took between 3 & 4 am, as my camera battery died & is currently recharging.

I saw the bright moon around midnight when it was lighting up the back of my place. .went to bed and fell asleep reading ..woke up around the time they said it would be at it's biggest so went to look and the moon had moved around the side of the house and couldn't see it out of front or back windows. . couldn't be assed to get dressed to go outside to see it so missed it yet again ..  I always miss the meteor thingy's too..

Great photos Cinds, I'm looking forward to the ones you took between 3 and 4

I was asleep but did look out at about 4.15 but although I could see that the moon was partially eclipsed, the reddish colour had drained away.

Here's a couple more I think are lovely that I've stolen off Twitter.

Glastonbury

Penshaw Monument

These are the final set, started taking pics at around 3am and finished at about 3.50 when battery died. They're not as clear as the first lot, but I'm still rather pleased with them.

Cinds!! 

Those are incredible photos!! What'd you take them with??

A camera. :nods:

That was incredibly helpful of you. 

I was hoping for specifics.

Lori my camera is nothing flash, a canon powershot  SX270 

http://www.ryman.co.uk/canon-p...8wdodBHshBoCKWbw_wcB

I think what's helped is I had it on my telescope tripod so the stability probably helped a lot.