Tonight marks a very special occasion in our astronomical history.

To recap, we had a

• Supermoon (full moon that is nearer to Earth),
• Blue moon (second full moon in a month)
• and a Lunar eclipse (Earth is directly between the sun and the moon, and so the moon falls into Earth's shadow)

all occurring at the same time on Wednesday (Jan. 31) evening — and it was visible right here in Singapore.

The last time this occurred was 152 years ago. 

While the moon wasn't blue in colour, it appeared reddish because light from the sun is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere.

Only red light makes it to the moon and bounces back to our eyes.

As with other celestial occurrences, some of us ended up having problems proving we had witnessed the event:

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My super blue moon eclipse experience 2018 pic.twitter.com/rsDc92cj9z

— Fira✨ (@firamint2) January 31, 2018

Straits Times: RARE MOON TONIGHT YALL.

Singapore weather: pic.twitter.com/vW3Yyl9esY

— Audi Khalid (@AudiKhalid) January 31, 2018

aiya how to see the #SuperBloodBlueMoon when we r working??? I’ll just moon @987charmian in the studio now, brb.

— prEEtipls (@plspreeti) January 31, 2018

But not all of us had potato cameras, thankfully. So here's what others managed to capture with proper equipment:

tonight’s moon 🌚 pic.twitter.com/17cY2Nj3Uu

— dionne (@hueiwens) January 31, 2018

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A death star or humpty dumpty #eclipsesingapore #eclipse2018 #onceinabluemoon #butbloodier #andsquinting #iactuallyforgotitwashappening #nottoobad #trifecta #nikon #nikonsg #d750

A post shared by joseph nair (joe) (@roundthebout) on Jan 31, 2018 at 7:00am PST

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Blue, Red & Super Moon! #singapore #moon #eclipse #redmoon #bluemoon #supermoon pic.twitter.com/jl9lPe4lqd

— Ramanathan (@tkramanathan) January 31, 2018

Wuff photos of tonight lunar eclipse and blood moon from Singapore! Taken on tiny compact camera. :P #AstroWuff pic.twitter.com/WGHW1zxphN

— Gyro (@Gyrowoof) January 31, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Benjwkxj8wU/

i took pictures of my wife, the moon, in all of her superbloodmooneclipse etherealness pic.twitter.com/DYz5rUQL8H

— Tasha (@tinymudkip) January 31, 2018

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Night sky magic. Did you manage to see the super blue blood moon (what a mouthful 😂) from where you live? Nights like these remind me that miracles still happen, even if they occur once in a blue moon 😊 have a lovely evening everyone!

A post shared by this visual love affair (@thisvisualloveaffair) on Jan 31, 2018 at 7:56am PST

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Blood Moon . . . #moon #fullmoon #eclipse #bloodmoon #photography #supermoon

A post shared by Joshua (@iesuamarcus) on Jan 31, 2018 at 7:52am PST

Putting the "Observatory" into Earth Observatory of Singapore @EOS_SG Super blue blood moon seen over Singapore, 31/01/17. pic.twitter.com/9nYY0jYDgp

— James D P Moore (@jdpmoore) January 31, 2018

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I tried. #fujifilm #fujifail #bloodmoon #amiwolfyet #xs1

A post shared by Omkar Salokhe (@omkaaaaar) on Jan 31, 2018 at 7:52am PST

Telescope view of the SUPER BLUE BLOOD MOON 🔭
Credits to my cuz pic.twitter.com/HM6UfVwtRk

— ms. sy 👩🏻‍⚕️ (@CrAzZySkIttLE) January 31, 2018

Tell us how you feel about today’s rare event! #BloodMoon #Eclipse #Singapore #lunareclipse2018 #SuperBlueBloodMoon pic.twitter.com/usuq9KrmFg

— QURO (@QUROshop) January 31, 2018

This was of it ending:

Nice.

And now you can tell people you've seen it.

Top image by Esther Tay