People across Americas to Western Europe marvelled at the beautiful vision of the Super Blood Moon phenomena this 2015 beginning the evening of Sunday, Sept. 27.
Super Blood Moon, a rare occurrence that happened in 1982, returned in 2015 when the moon underwent two natural phases at the same time - the super moon where the moon is full and in its closest distance to the Earth, and lunar eclipse.
Former NASA Astronaut David Wolf told USA Today that super moons generally appear to be 14 percent larger and 33 percent brighter than the usual full moon.
And because of the lunar eclipse where the Sun, the Earth and the Moon queue respectively, the moon will be covered with the Earth's shadow completely.
This allows the light from the sun to scatter off the Earth's atmosphere giving the super moon its copper red hue once it passes the Earth's shadow, thus described as bloody.
According to Earthsky, the Super Blood Moon of 2015 was seen all over South America and most of North America after the sunset of Sept. 27 and on the eastern South America and Greenland around midnight.
Meanwhile, Europe, Africa and the Middle East experienced the total lunar eclipse after midnight and before sunrise the next day.
Sky-gazers never missed a shot of this year's Super Blood Moon. Among them was Renata Arpasova of Swindon, England who waited early Monday morning to capture the Super Blood Moon on camera.
"We were meant to have clouds, but miracles do happen and we ended up with clear skies," Arpasova told CNN.
"It's a beautiful sight in the night time sky," astronomer Mark Hammergren told CNN.
"It's a way of connecting us to the universe at large. It gives us this view that there's a bigger picture than just what we're concerned with in our daily lives," he added.
The next super blood moon is set to appear in 2033.
