On September 27th, we experienced an event that does not happen very often, a supermoon lunar eclipse. We have had a supermoon before, and I've talked about it (see Supermoon). A supermoon is just the moon at perigee. However, this time, we had a supermoon occur when we had a lunar eclipse.
Lunar eclipses aren't all that rare (they happen once every six months), but to have one occur when the moon is at perigee is a sight to behold. The moon appears the largest and the lunar eclipse at this time is actually the shortest total lunar eclipse to occur. It is the shortest because the moon is at its closest, so it is actually moving at its fastest. Many lunar eclipses can last a few hours, but totality for this eclipse was only an hour and a half.
If you want to know more about lunar eclipses, see here.
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