There is nothing more captivating than the site of a bright full moon,
Last night our skies were illuminated with a much bigger and brighter moon otherwise known as a supermoon, which occurs when it is closest to the earth during its elliptical orbit.
If you didn't get a chance to see this wondrous phenomenon due to cloudy conditions fear not - here are some amazing images captured from around the world.
Johnny Horne captured this brilliant image of the moon in all its glory through an amateur astronomer's 5-inch refractor telescope near Stedman N.C.
Supermoon 2013 in pictures...See gallery below best viewed in fullscreen
Keen moon watchers took to Twitter to share their snaps of the extraordinary lunar event
