Dazzling pictures of the harvest supermoon captured by stargazers ...

Photographers and stargazers have been treated to a show overnight as the harvest supermoon lit up skies across the world.

The September supermoon is known as the harvest moon because in the northern hemisphere, it is closest to the autumn equinox.

In Australia, it falls around the time of the spring equinox.

The Moon began to look bright and large on Tuesday and will continue to do so until the end of the week.

Pictures below show the Moon in various stages from across Europe, the Middle East, United States and Australia. 

The harvest supermoon is pictured in Los Angeles, California.  (Reuters: Mario Anzuoni)

A harvest supermoon rises over a lighthouse in Scituate, Massachusetts, United States.  (Reuters: Lauren Owens Lambert )

A full moon, known as harvest moon sets after the lunar eclipse in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. (Reuters: Jose Cabezas)

The Moon rises from Dohles Rocks, Queensland. (Supplied: Peter Everett)

The full harvest moon rises over 'The Couple' sculpture at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland.  (AP: Owen Humphreys )

A view of the Moon from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.  (Reuters: Mario Anzuoni)

The full harvest moon rises behind the silhouette of the coat of arms of Russia set atop of the Historical Museum near Red Square in Moscow. (AP: Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The pumpkin-coloured harvest moon rises over the beach as people play volleyball on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago.  (AP: Kiichiro Sato)

The supermoon at Mount Barker, Adelaide.  (Supplied: Patrick Wynne)

The full harvest moon rises behind the church in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany (AP: Michael Probst)

There will be two more supermoons this year.

The next supermoon, the hunter's moon, will be on October 17.

A new moon will happen on November 15.