Tuesday night, students and community members gathered on the rooftop of Neckers for an astronomy event hosted by SIU’s School of Physics. The event featured a partial lunar eclipse, providing attendees the opportunity to see the moon and planets like Saturn through high-powered telescopes.

A supermoon has lit up the sky across the world coinciding with a rare partial lunar eclipse. The Moon could be seen to appear brighter and bigger on Tuesday night. Supermoons happen when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.

Stargazers were treated to a double dose of lunar spectacles in the night sky Tuesday. A partial lunar eclipse coincided with a supermoon, when the full moon made its closest approach to Earth during its elliptical orbit.

Photographers and stargazers have been treated to a show overnight as the harvest supermoon lit up skies across the world. The September supermoon is known as the harvest moon because in the northern hemisphere, it is closest to the autumn equinox. In Australia, it falls around the time of the spring equinox.

A supermoon coinciding with a partial lunar eclipse was seen around the world on Tuesday night. Lunar eclipses are caused by the Earth passing between the sun and the moon. This casts the Earth’s shadow on to the moon’s surface.

Check out these incredible Harvest Moon Supermoon lunar eclipse photos from around the world. September's full moon did not disappoint.

This particular partial lunar eclipse — also the Harvest Moon — was extra special since it was also a supermoon, so it shone even brighter and looked larger in the sky. This p