42---BEST SUPER BLOOD MOON PICTURES

Maybe it’s the light pollution, maybe it’s always cloudy some have yet to experience with my own eyes the magic of these celestial events. Thankfully there are people around the world who not only experience them but beautifully capture it for all to enjoy. Until next time!

Missed it? Want to see it again? You can, with our readers' amazing shots of this rare celestial event.

Several lunar events combined to create a once-in-a-few-decades sight in the sky.

First, there was a full moon. Second, it was a special type known as a harvest moon, since it was the closest full moon to the autumn equinox. Third, the moon was as close to Earth as it will get all year, making it a supermoon. Fourth, there was a total lunar eclipse, in which the Earth's shadow first tints the moon red (hence the name blood moon), then hides it entirely.

The supermoon occurs when the moon is in the closest part of its orbit to Earth, making it appear larger in the sky. A lunar eclipse is also known as a blood moon because of the reddish glow caused by the earth's shadow.

The eclipse was visible in North America, South America, West Africa and Western Europe. While the western half of North America, the rest of Europe and Africa, the Middle East and South Asia observed a partial eclipse.

The supermoon, which occurs when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit, coincided with a lunar eclipse, which hasn’t happened since 1982 and won’t happen again until 2033.

This kind of overlap has only happened five times since 1900. The last was in 1982, and the next will be in 2033. But if you missed it, fear not.

SEE & ENJOY!!!!!

Red moon over Volcan Colima, 27 Sept. 2015.

Rivulets of lava erupted from the summit beneath a blood red moon. Volcan Colima is an active stratovolcano situated in the Mexican states of Colima and Jalisco, 300 miles west of Mexico City. It is one of North America's most active volcanoes.

This photo from Quebec, Canada is among the best pictures of the event posted to our Your Shot community

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The Blood Moon as taken from the roof of our building, overlooking the South of Market district of San Francisco. Taken with a Sony A7s on a tripod.

Using Photoshop merged the two images

It was a one-in-a-million chance that it happened to pass right in front of the moon, snapped this photograph using Canon SX280 point-and-shoot held against the eyepiece of a 5” Celestron 130SLT telescope.

Shot on a Nikon D7000, 200mm (55-200mm lens), F/10, 1.6”, ISO 400. When producing the final image, brightened the original shots by overlaying four copies of each. Overlaying and some minor cropping all done in GIMP.

Canon T3i and 18-200mm lens on a tripod with IR remote, 10s exposure, f/8, ISO 400. This is a composite of two images merged in photoshop in order to get the statue and moon in focus.

Taken from the pier in Saucalito, CA. That’s Karl the Fog. Fuji X-T1, XF 55-200mm, 800 ISO, f/8

The so-called supermoon behind Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England, early on Monday.

Photographer John Kelsey captured this fantastic time-lapse image from his Brooklyn rooftop.

The Moon, appearing next to a statue on the Alexander III bridge, in Paris (Picture: Reuters)

Next to a statue on a roof in Hamburg, Germany (Picture: Reuters)

Rising into the sky over St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay North Tyneside (Picture: NNP)

The moon dwarfed Penshaw Monument (Picture: NNP)

The supermoon next to the Eiffel Tower. Photo: Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The supermoon during the early stages of the lunar eclipse near Big Ben in London, United Kingdom. Photo: Joseph Okpako/2015 Joseph Okpako

The supermoon near the London Eye Capsules in London, U.K. Photo: Joseph Okpako/2015 Joseph Okpako

The eclipsed supermoon rises behind the Las Vegas Strip. Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images/2015 Getty Images

The supermoon behind the Colorado State Capitol building during a total lunar eclipse. Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASA

The supermoon rises over a sailboat in Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

The Super Blood Moon rises over the spires of the House of Parliament on in London, U.K. Photo: Joseph Okpako/Getty Images

The super blood moon can be seen behind one of the steeples of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, western Germany (ROLF VENNENBERND/AFP/Getty Images)

The supermoon could be seen behind the Quadriga sculpture on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate (KAY NIETFELD/AFP/Getty Images)

Reindeers are seen silhouetted against the blood moon during the lunar eclipse near the village of Yavterishki, about 250 kilometers north of Minsk, Belarus. (SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images)

Super blood moon, as seen from Long Island City, New York. (Brian Michael Tully)

The supermoon in Innsbruck, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch / Getty Images

The supermoon appears behind the Turning Torso building in Malmo in the south of Sweden during a total lunar eclipse. (Johan Nilsson /AFP/Getty Images)

A supermoon is seen during a lunar eclipse behind pods of the London Eye wheel in London, September 28, 2015. Sky-watchers around the world are in for a treat Sunday night and Monday when the shadow of Earth casts a reddish glow on the moon, the result of 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.Toby Melville/Reuters

The Moon, appearing in a dim red colour, is covered by the Earth's shadow during a total lunar eclipse over Paris, France September 28, 2015.Charles Platiau/Reuters

A supermoon is seen in the sky in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 27, 2015.Jose Cabezas/Reuters

A supermoon, the last of this year's supermoons, rises over a minaret of a mosque in Wadi El-Rayan Lake at the desert of Al Fayoum Governorate, south west of Cairo, Egypt.Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

A super moon rises in the sky near the Eiffel tower as seen from Suresnes, Western Paris, France.Charles Platiau/Reuters

A supermoon rises in the sky over the Rio de La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Enrique Marcarian/Reuters

The Moon, appearing next to a statue on the Alexander III bridge, in a dim red colour, is covered by the Earth's shadow during a total lunar eclipse over Paris, France September 28, 2015.Philippe Wojazer/Reuters