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Marysia Macfarlane took this beautiful picture of the super moon and this opportunity to take this shot only comes round once in a blue moon!
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Thanks to Ian Sinclair for this picture. The black fence is pointing upwards to the violet sky.
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Ian Sinclair took this beautiful picture of the colourful sky over Perthshire on the night of the super moon.
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Ian Black took this beautiful picture of St John's kirk on Tay Street reflected in the Tay with the silvery, blue and violet sky in the water.
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This picture from Ian Black looks absolutely stunning with the black outline of the tree against the colourful night sky.
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This picture by Gordon Muir shows the red firey sky perfectly.
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Gordon Sime took this beautiful mirror image of the sky over Perthshire on the night of the super moon.
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Gordon Muir took this stunning image of the 2016 Super Moon in Perthshire.
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This picture by Gordon Muir shows the beautiful red and orange sky reflected into a small pond below.
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Evelyn Kelly captured this beautiful sky in the Perthshire countryside. The sky looks like a crushed parma violet!
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This picture by Evelyn kelly shows the beautiful purple sky above this countryside cottage.
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Andrew Harvey took this picture of the super moon over Perth.
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Tom Ryan took this picture of the shadow of Scone Kirk with the firey sky behind. It almost looks like a dragon has blown fire into the sky.
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This fantastic picture from Tom Ryan looks so mystical with the gold sky in the backdrop of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery blue domed roof.
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This beautiful picture was taken by Dave Robertson at Leystone Road near to its junction with the A93 between the Meikleour Beech Hedge and the Beech Hedge caravan park.
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This picture was taken by Peter Murray in Perthshire on the night of the Super Moon, and that's a super moon pic alright!
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This picture is by Derek Browning and the tree acts as a frame to this beautifully coloured night sky over Perthshire.
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This beautiful picture from Anne Mitchell shows the vast array of colours in the sky from blue to orange.
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This beautiful image from Tom Ryan shows the trees in Scone in front of a gold glowing sky.
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This picture of the Super Moon in Perthshire from Andrew Harvey shows the moon glowing gold with wisps of dark clouds. You half expect to see a werewolf howling at the side!
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Gallery Supermoon
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Supermoon over the Small City

On the evening of Monday 14th November our social media feeds became awash with images of the beautiful and unexpected sunset all over Perthshire. People snapped away on their phones and cameras, capturing the all too brief moment.

I say unexpected because most of us were aware of the forecast ‘supermoon’ anticipated to occur after darkness fell, but few realised that this spectacular technicoloured sunset would be it’s warm up act. As the moon began to reveal it's full glory in the clear night sky many of us began to wish that a) we were better photographers and b) we’d made time to Google what a ‘supermoon’ actually is.

Allow us to briefly elaborate. A supermoon results when the moon reaches it’s full phase (i.e. a whole jaffa cake) at the closest point to Earth, causing it to look somewhat bigger and brighter in the sky than usual. On November 14, 2016, the full moon was 356,508 km from Earth, the closest since January 1948.

On top of it’s bigger than usual size, a supermoon also has an additional ‘lowhanging’ effect- an optical illusion caused by the moon being close to the horizon, where it can be measured against familiar objects such as trees and houses.

Although supermoons are in themselves not necessarily a once in a lifetime experience each has it’s own unique characteristics, and according to NASA the one on November 14th is the brightest supermoon in over half a century, and unlikely to be beaten until 2034.

Areas with low horizons and low pollution are generally best for moon-gazing and the photographers in our gallery were on hand, putting all their technical knowledge and equipment to the test to bring us these gorgeous shots from all over Perthshire.

With special thanks to all the photographers for contributing their beautiful pictures to our gallery; Gordon Muir, Anne Mitchell, Evelyn Kelly, Tom Ryan, Andrew Harvey, Marysia Macfarlane, Peter Murray, Ian Sinclair, Derek Browning, Dave Robertson, Ian Black, Gordon Sime