Stargazers across the UK will be able to catch a glimpse of the year’s fourth and final supermoon on Thursday, in a phenomenon known as the Sturgeon Moon.
August's supermoon was named the Sturgeon Moon by North American fishing tribes, since the species appeared in large numbers in the Great Lakes at this time of year. A supermoon means the moon is closer to the Earth than usual, so it appears bigger and brighter in the sky.
They are classed as such when the Moon is at 360,000km or less away from Earth – the average distance between the moon and the Earth being 384,400km.
