Today was to provide the most awesome lunar spectacle in decades, but a cloudy sky has ruined most people's view of the supermoon.

This evening the moon appears 30% brighter and 14% bigger than usual, but you'd be hard pushed to tell thanks to a thick blanket of cloud.

However, things weren't quite as bad yesterday, and a few Kent stargazers - managed to snap the supermoon.

The outlook is not good for the majority of the week unfortunately, with cloudy skies predicted until at least Thursday evening.

The moon will still be larger than usual though, so it might be worth having a look at about 6pm on Thursday, when the Met Office predicts clear skies for parts of the county.

Known as a supermoon, it is defined as "a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit."

This is the biggest the moon has appeared since January 1948, despite supermoons being quite common.

November's supermoon is one of three this year - the first was on Sunday, October 16 and there will be another on Wednesday, December 14.

What makes this supermoon so special is the fact the moon becomes full within two hours of perigee - that is the point when it is closest to Earth.

In fact, it is about 30,000 miles closer than the other side of the orbit, the apogee, when the moon is furthest from Earth.

The term supermoon is not often used among astronomers, with the name perigee-syzygy used more commonly.

The terminology comes firstly from the stage of the moon's orbit (perigee), while syzygy is the name given to when the Earth, the sun and the moon align in the moon's orbit of Earth.

A supermoon occurs when the two coincide and the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth to the sun.

There won't be a chance to see such a super supermoon until November 2034.

Paul Thomsett, chairman of the South East Kent Astronomical Society commented "As long as the skies are clear and you have a good view to the south you will have no trouble seeing our nearest celestial neighbour blazing in the night sky."

"Weather permitting [it] will be visible without the need for a telescope."

However, if you're planning on trying to get a good photo or want to see the supermoon at it's finest, places with the least light pollution are the best viewing point.

Ten supermoon facts:

• The moon is the largest satellite relative to its parent planet but it is the fifth largest natural satellite in the solar system.

• The moon suffers at least four different kinds of moonquake - deep, meteorite impacts, thermal and shallow.

• It is always the same face of the moon that is visible to Earth.

• The moon rotates at just 10 miles per hour, while Earth rotates at 1,000 miles per hour.

• The moon is very slowly moving away from Earth, at about 3.78 cm each year.

• There have been 117 missions to the moon.

• If two full moons occur in the same month, the second is a blue moon.

• There will be no supermoons in 2017. The next one afterWednesday, December 14 will be on Tuesday, January 2 2018, when perigee and the full moon next realign.

• The November supermoon will be356,509 km from Earth.

• The closest supermoon of this century will be in December 2052, when the moon will be356,425 km away.

If you get a super shot, send it in via email or tweet us @Kent_Online and we'll post some of our favourites!