Supermoon Pictures From Around the World

 

A supermoon sets behind the Statue of Liberty, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in New York. The larger than normal moon called the "Supermoon" happens only once this year as the moon on its elliptical orbit is at its closest point to earth and is 13.5 percent larger than usual. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

 A "supermoon" rises over Table Rock and the lighted cross near Boise, Idaho, Saturday night, June 22, 2013. (The Idaho Statesman, Kyle Green/AP Photo)

 

A full moon rises behind the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on Saturday, June 22, 2013. (J. David Ake/AP Photo)

The larger-than-normal full moon referred to as Supermoon is seen setting beyond a refinery in Norco, La., Sunday, June 23, 2013. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

 

A full moon rises beside the Bank of America corporate headquarters in downtown Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, June 22, 2013. (Chuck Burton/AP Photo)

 

A closer, brighter full moon dubbed a "supermoon" is shown around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, June 23, 2013 in this picture made through an amateur astronomer's 5-inch refractor telescope, near Stedman, N.C. (The Fayetteville Observer, Johnny Horne/AP Photo)

 

A statue of the Angel Moroni on top a Latter-day Saints temple is silhouetted against the rising moon Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)

 

A full super moon sets behind the top of one of the minarets at the University of Tampa Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. (Chris O'Meara/AP Photo)

 

The moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as it rises over Lower Manhattan, including One World Trade Center, center, seen from The Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J., Saturday, June 22, 2013. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

 

A man pushes a baby stroller along the OCBC Skyway at the Supertree Groves at The Gardens By The Bay as the "Supermoon" rises over Singapore on June 23, 2013. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)

  

The moon in its waxing gibbous stage shines behind a statue entitled "Enlightenment Giving Power" by John Gelert, which sits at the top of the dome of the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack, N.J., Friday, June 21, 2013. The moon, which will reach its full stage on Sunday, is expected to be 13.5 percent closer to earth during a phenomenon known as supermoon. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

 
"Super moon" hangs in the sky over Rotterdam 

 

A super moon hangs in the sky over Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on June 22, 2013. On Saturday a perigee moon coincided with a full moon creating a "super moon" when it passed by the earth at its closest point in 2013. (Xinhua/Robin Utrecht)

 

 

The moon rises over the temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas

 ( HEINZ-PETER BADER, REUTERS / June 23, 2013 )

The super moon is pictured behind the cross of a church in Vienna June 23, 2013. The largest full moon of the year called the "super moon" will light up the night sky this weekend.

 

The supermoon is seen behind the Marina district towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, June 23, 2013. / Associated Press

 A supermoon rises behind a building of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 23, 2013. / Associated Press
 
A supermoon is seen behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, May 6, 2012. / Associated Press

 

'Supermoon' lights up night sky

 A so-called supermoon has lit up the night sky, where the Moon appears much bigger and brighter than normal. This picture was captured by Andrew McNeil in Aberdeen.

 John Dunford said: "I took this this evening, just after the Moon had risen here in southern Spain, near the village of Competa. It was around 9.30pm or so."

Wolfram Schubert said about this picture of the supermoon: "Taken in Erfurt, central Germany. Acting as the foreground is the local St Mary's Cathedral.

 The effect is created when the Moon reaches its closest point to Earth. Ghordon Ryan took this picture in the Netherlands.

 Ximena Velez-Liendo witnessed the perigee moon rising above the clouds in the city of Cochabamba in central Bolivia.

Jon Brown from Toronto in Canada was visiting Padua in Italy and took this photo of the moon set against the Abbey of Santa Giustina while walking in the Prato dell Valle.

The supermoon could be seen from Hull in the UK, where Rob Deyes took this photo. He said:"I noticed the moon rising above the house tops. I whipped into the garden with my tripod and my camera and took around 30 shots at different exposures so I could see the silhouette of the roofs and the moon in full brightness.

The supermoon pokes through the clouds in this picture by Tim Nuttall in Withernsea, East Yorkshire. Many skywatchers in the UK may have missed the display because of cloudy skies - they will have to wait until August 2014 for the next one. 

From: BBC 

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