Supermoon lunar eclipse
The “super moon” is nearly in total eclipse at 6:07pm September 27, 2015 as it rises behind the Ferris Wheel at the Irvine Spectrum mall in Irvine, CA. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A full moon, the last of this year’s supermoons, rises near a statue of Pope Leon IX in Eguisheim France. (JACKY NAEGELEN / 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 supermoon rises in the sky over the Rio de La Plata in Buenos Aires. (ENRIQUE MARCARIAN / REUTERS)
An Afghan man is illuminated by the light from his phone while taking a selfie on the top of the Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP/Getty Images)
This composite image shows the progression of the total lunar eclipse to a Blood Moon in Centreville, MD. (JIM WATSON / AFP/Getty Images)
People watch a perigee moon, also known as a super moon, rises in Mir, Belarus, 95 kilometers (60 miles) west of capital Minsk, Belarus. (Sergei Grits / AP)
People watch a full moon rising in Berlin, Germany. (Gero Breloer / AP)
Clouds obscure the so-called supermoon before a lunar eclipse Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, in Chicago. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)
A full moon silhouettes television and radio antennas on Boutilier Mountain, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Dieu Nalio Chery / AP)
A super moon rises behind a grazing cow in a pasture near Lecompton, Kan., Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, before a total lunar eclipse. (Orlin Wagner / AP)
A “supermoon’’ rises above Brighton in southern England (TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS)