Brilliant ‘flower’ full moon seen in spectacular pictures as 2020’s last supermoon lights up the sky

STARGAZERS are in for a treat as the final supermoon of the year appears tonight in the sky.

The full moon in May is also know as the “flower moon”, after the flowers the blooms during the month.

Incredible images show the moon rising across the UK, Germany and Turkey.

The celestial event started this evening and will last until the early hours of Thursday.

NASA explained on its website: “The next full Moon will be on Thursday morning, May 7, 2020, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 6:45am EDT.”

This equates to 10:45pm GMT for watches in the UK.

The space agency continued: “The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Tuesday evening through Friday morning.”

Wednesday night, weather permitting, is still likely to be your best bet of seeing the Flower Moon in all its glory.

This full moon will also be a supermoon, meaning it will be about six per cent larger than a typical full moon and around 14 per cent bigger than a micromoon, which is when the moon is at its furthest point from Earth.

Greg Brown, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory, said: “The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not entirely circular, instead a slightly flattened circle or ellipse.

“As such, it is sometimes closer to and sometimes further away from the Earth.

“While definitions vary, a supermoon typically occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon being within the closest 10 per cent of its orbit.”

Dr Brown also said this event would be the third and final supermoon of this year.

He said: “Because of how the dynamics of orbits work, these usually occur in runs of two or three with longer gaps of several months between each set of supermoons.”

The next supermoon will be visible in April 2021.