You might recall that a supermoon, blue moon and lunar eclipse, otherwise known as a "super blue total lunar eclipse" appeared last week on the evening of January 31, 2018.

The last time something like this happened was 152 years ago.

Most people who witnessed it took potato pictures of it with their phones, like this (which is already not that bad, admittedly):

While others had nicer shots, like all of these:

But none of them can beat this — a composite image of the progression of the super blue blood moon that night, mapped out entirely by one talented Singaporean photographer named Candida Tay-Smith:

Whoa.

This is what she wrote to accompany the shot (taken at Depot Road):

"Composite image of the Lunar Eclipse of the Super Blue Blood Moon.

Location: Southwestern part of Singapore.

• 31 Jan 2018.

• approx 8pm to 10pm.

• view from master bedroom window (21st floor)"

Total of 474 shots taken

Speaking to Mothership on Sunday, Tay-Smith, who runs her own photography and digital production company, said she took a total of 474 shots during the night of the phenomena.

She did this "to show movement/motion over a long period of time, and play it back in a shorter duration".

She then used the best shots to combine into the resulting final picture you have above.

She also has plans to use the images she took to make a video of the moon progression.

Creating the composite image

A composite image is a picture that's made from the combination of multiple images merged into a single surface.

To create this, Tay-Smith layered each picture of the moon onto a single background image.

The path was not accurate, she said, but she did her best to mimic it.

From where she was standing, she added that the moon actually looked smaller than it did on the composite.

She also wanted to showcase in her composite image the detail of the eclipse and the change in colour of the moon as it was being covered by the shadow of the earth.

Sounds like a painful process — working through 474 images to pick the best ones and layer them up — but Tay-Smith describes it as "therapeutic".

Here's her Facebook post with the pic in all its glory:

Tay-Smith says she loves photography and all kinds of different ways of recording events, especially if it's a major event or activity such as the "moon, clouds, skies, (and) landscapes":

"... these are all spectacular showcases ready to be recorded, saved and enjoyed all the time!"

She also showed us what her setup looked like:

Moon still looks huge a day later

It seems the Supermoon continued shining bright and big over the next evening, too, as many may have noticed. Tay-Smith also took a pretty picture of it from the same position in her 21st floor window:

Other amazing moon shots

We also reckon Tay-Smith is a fan of the moon as this isn't the only time she has taken pictures of it.

Here are some other pictures of the moon she took back in August and September last year:

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Nice.

Here's another composite image done by an equally talented Singapore-based photographer.

Still mooning over that epic moon picture? Here are some more from other talented local photographers:

Top image adapted via Candida Tay-Smith/FB