The former honorary president of South Lincs Astronomical and Geophysical Society captured this stunning image of Monday’s rare “supermoon”.
Paul Money, who is reviews editor at BBC Sky at Night magazine, took the photograph at mid-eclipse with a 5in Achromat refractor telescope and Canon 50D DSLR.
The supermoon – where Earth’s satellite is near its minimum distance from our planet – means that the Moon appears seven to eight per cent larger in the sky.
The Moon looks rust-coloured during a total lunar eclipse (giving rise to its nickname Blood Moon) because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue light more strongly than red light, and it is this red light that reaches the lunar surface.
