Delight for stargazers as supermoon, lunar eclipse coincide

People around the world witnessed a rare celestial event Sunday night through Monday, a full supermoon lunar eclipse, aka blood moon.

"You always want to see the eclipse because they're always very different," said astronomer Edwin Krupp, Griffith observatory's director, as reported by the Telegraph.

Supermoon is a phenomenon when Moon is in closest part of its orbit to Earth, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. Moreover, a lunar eclipse, the Earth lining up in between the sun and moon, also occurred which made the Moon appear red.

The Earth’s shadow began to dim the supermoon and turn it red around 8 p.m.; the total eclipse started around 10:11 p.m., BostonGlobe reports.

Such coincidence of supermoon and lunar eclipse took place back in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033. It has happened only 5 times since the beginning of 20th century.