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 in Qiqihar, in north-east China's Heilongjiang Province. People spot the supermoon at the Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) in Berlin, Germany.
A tiny spec at the bottom of the photo shows a British Airways flight preparing to land in Cyprus, in the Mediterranean. People walk into and out of the subway as the full moon rises above the monument in Freedom Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. The full harvest moon rises over The Couple sculpture at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland in the UK.
Another shot shows the brilliant supermoon in Berlin, Germany. An airplane flies past the moon as it rises in the sky in Istanbul, Turkey. The supermoon rises above Panama City.
A sports photographer turned their camera to the sky to grab this shot of the full moon in Mexico City. The city landmark, a weather vane in the form of an angel atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, is silhouetted by the rising full moon in St Petersburg, Russia..
