Super blue blood Moon - latest updates as it happened: Lunar eclipse sweeps across the world
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Your support makes all the difference.The super blue blood moon has arrived.
Australia got the first glimpse of the full event, as it spread across the world. Much of Asia and America also got a look – though the UK, Europe and Africa missed out on seeing the blood moon, or lunar eclipse.
They will, however, get to see the supermoon. And as well as being much bigger and brighter than normal it will also be second full moon of the month, making it a blue moon.
Taken together, that's a series of celestial events that haven't been seen for decades.
Here's all the latest updates as the sight makes its way around the world, and as all the best pictures, videos and live streams start to arrive.
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The moon has its own Twitter hashflag. It looks like a red pizza to me, but who am I to complain:
All looking very dark on the moon at the moment. This pic from Nasa telescopes on the west coast:
Just 20 minutes or so until the total eclipse begins. It'll hang around for little over an hour – and then gradually move back into looking as it normally does.
Of course, the blue moon and supermoon will be sticking around – you can't actually see the blue moon, but the moon will be looking big and bright for the next couple of days.
Just five minutes left till totality, and the moon is almost entirely disappeared according to Nasa's live stream:
Total eclipse is here! And the moon is looking beautiful and red:
Unlike a solar eclipse, where totality only lasts for a few minutes, the relative size of the moon and the sun mean the blood moon will stay around for a while. Totality will come to an end in just over an hour.
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