A brighter than usual full moon graced the skies last night as our celestial neighbour’s orbit loomed closer than usual.

Bermuda lay outside the regions where a lunar eclipse afforded viewers the added bonus of a crimson glow covering the moon — known as a blood moon.

But at its peak, the supermoon appeared 14 per cent bigger, and 30 per cent brighter — while the occurrence of two full moons in one month also made it a blue moon.

The rare phenomenon, called a Super Blue Blood Moon, was at its best in Asia, Australia and the western parts of the United States and Canada.

In Bermuda, for the second year, the charity Friends of Hospice marked the occasion with a moonlit walk along Horseshoe Bay in support of Agape House.