Blue supermoon in pictures: Rare lunar event lights up West Country skies
Sky gazers in the West Country have been treated to a rare blue supermoon, which made a spectacular appearance for the first time since 2009.
The peak of the full moon – when the near side of it is completely lit up by the sun, happened at 2.35am(BST) on the morning of Thursday 31 August.
A blue supermoon occurs when there are two full moons in a calendar month.
As it takes 29.5 days for the moon to complete one orbit of the Earth, you rarely get two full moons in a month.
This month's blue moon is particularly special as it is also a supermoon, which means it is around 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the average full moon.
Despite its name, the lunar phenomenon has nothing to do with colour.
It falls outside the usual pattern of named Moons, hence the phrase 'once in a blue moon'.
There will not be another blue supermoon until 2037.
People across the West Country have been sending in their supermoon pictures