September supermoon and partial eclipse dazzles skies worldwide
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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.
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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.
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A man films on his phone as the moon rises over Fingal Bay in Port Stephens north of Sydney on September 18.
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The supermoon over Melbourne on September 18.
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The moon rises above a Sydney apartment tower on September 17.
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A couple walk along the beach as the moon rises over Fingal Bay in Port Stephens.
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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.
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A shot from further away shows the supermoon in all its glory in Wehrheim, Germany.
The supermoon is one of three remaining this year.
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The supermoon shines above the Mid-Autumn Festival in Huzhou City, in east China's Zhejiang Province.
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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.
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Another shot of the moon rising through the clouds off Maine.
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Cormorants are silhouetted against the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Qiqihar, in north-east China's Heilongjiang Province.
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People spot the supermoon at the Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) in Berlin, Germany.
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A tiny spec at the bottom of the photo shows a British Airways flight preparing to land in Cyprus, in the Mediterranean.
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People walk into and out of the subway as the full moon rises above the monument in Freedom Square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The full harvest moon rises over The Couple sculpture at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland in the UK.
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Another shot shows the brilliant supermoon in Berlin, Germany.
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An airplane flies past the moon as it rises in the sky in Istanbul, Turkey.
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The supermoon rises above Panama City.
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A sports photographer turned their camera to the sky to grab this shot of the full moon in Mexico City.
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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.
