LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County's clear night sky was the perfect backdrop on Sunday night for the eclipse of the supermoon, which also was this year's harvest moon.
The eclipse lasted an estimated 72 minutes.
According to NASA, a supermoon is a full or new moon that falls closest to the fall equinox, and is at its closest approach to the Earth.
Due to that close approach, the moon's diameter looks 14-percent larger.
This also was the harvest moon – which arrives at the beginning of the autumn season – as well as a “blood moon” because it passed behind the Earth and into its shadow, which caused it to appear red.
NASA said the Sunday night celestial event was the last of a “tetrad” – a series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses visible from North America.
Supermoon eclipses are rare, and Sunday night's was the first of the 21st century. There were only five in the 20th century, with the last one reportedly occurred in 1982, according to NASA.
There won't be another supermoon eclipse until 2033, NASA said.
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