The moon has put on a show around the world this week, lighting up the sky above many millions. Skywatchers were treated to a rare sight when a supermoon coincided with a partial lunar eclipse, creating a very large but very dim full moon. The moon looked huge and a beautiful dark terracotta shade above Sydney on September 18.
Another angle of the moon above North Head in Sydney. A whale was also seen at one point frolicking in the ocean below the moon. A man films on his phone as the moon rises over Fingal Bay in Port Stephens north of Sydney on September 18.
The supermoon over Melbourne on September 18. The moon rises above a Sydney apartment tower on September 17. A couple walk along the beach as the moon rises over Fingal Bay in Port Stephens.
In this photo taken in Wehrheim, Germany, the supermoon glows behind a weather vein on top of a chruch, near Frankfurt. The moon inched closer to Earth than usual this week, making it appear a bit larger in the sky. A shot from further away shows the supermoon in all its glory in Wehrheim, Germany.
The supermoon is one of three remaining this year. The supermoon shines above the Mid-Autumn Festival in Huzhou City, in east China's Zhejiang Province. The pumpkin-colored harvest moon rises through clouds over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Camden, in the US state of Maine on September 17.
Another shot of the moon rising through the clouds off Maine. Cormorants are silhouetted against the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.