STARGAZERS in West Devon turned their eyes to the sky in the early hours of Monday morning for a spectacular astronomical event — a ‘Super Blood Moon’.

A ‘Supermoon’ occurs when the full moon is closest to Earth in its orbit. This makes the moon appear bigger in the sky.

Around 3am on Monday, a ‘Supermoon’ coincided with a lunar eclipse, which gives the moon an unusual red hue when the moon passes directly behind the Earth into its shadow. This is known as a ‘blood moon’.

The two phenomena are not uncommon individually but are rarely aligned on the same evening. The combination of both events last happened in 1982 and won’t happen again until 2033.

These pictures were taken by West Devon resident John?Ellis as the moon rose over Dartmoor to the onset of full totality.