Welp, The Supermoon Was Bloody Jaw-Dropping If You Could Dodge The Clouds

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November 14, 2016

It kinda looks like Mother Nature gave large swathes of Australia a bit of a wind up this evening over the whole ‘supermoon’ thing. Basically, many of our dates with the celestial wonder were ruined by some first class cock-blocking from a shit-tonne of cloud cover.

In a very “old man yells at cloud” kind of reaction, would-be astronomers took out their frustrations with everyone’s favourite medium: Twitter.

Looks like the #Supermoon can’t be seen in parts of Australia today because of cloud cover and rain. Damn Clouds! pic.twitter.com/0X5CNMmNmp

— Geek Of Oz (@GeekOfOz) November 14, 2016

Look carefully and you can see a sliver of the #supermoon appear between clouds, disappointing hundreds at #bondibeach #Sydney #moon pic.twitter.com/P2GhMFTET2

— Janie Barrett (@janie_barrett) November 14, 2016

Sorry Sydney.. there’s always 2034! #supermoon pic.twitter.com/hpsP1dzIh3

— Julia Calixto (@julescalixto) November 14, 2016

#supermoon from #Melbourne. Sorry folks the clouds won out!! pic.twitter.com/mJJK1GonSu

— The Training Est (@MyTrainingEst) November 14, 2016

That dissatisfaction among Aussie punters manifested in memes, because of course it bloody did:

My view of the #supermoon tonight from work, such beauty. pic.twitter.com/SGx7EfJcTG

— Alex Zourkas (@ThemAgain1) November 14, 2016

Eventually, a few decent shots did break through. And, by decent, we mean goddamn b-e-a-utiful:

The supermoon finds a gap in the clouds over Sydney. Captured with Canon 600mm & 1DX #Sydney #Australia #supermoon #canon @CanonAustralia pic.twitter.com/iHIs0Xr2Y1

— Dallas Kilponen (@dallaskilponen) November 14, 2016

A photo posted by City of Sydney (@cityofsydney) on Nov 14, 2016 at 2:05am PST

??#supermoon goodness on the #goldcoast tonight @gcbulletin #history #bucketlist #cloudy #southport

A photo posted by Kristy Muir (@lovefromkris) on Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53am PST

I’ve seen bigger #supermoon #Perth

A photo posted by Marc (@metrotrekker) on Nov 14, 2016 at 2:59am PST

Brisvegas Supermoon #lights #supermoon #brisbane #sky #nightlights #moon

A photo posted by Alexandra (@woodydownunder) on Nov 14, 2016 at 3:04am PST

PEDESTRIAN.TV’s own Ben McLeay caught this jaw-dropper in Brisbane:

If that ain’t enough for you, you’ll be chuffed to learn some other parts of the world were also treated to a magnificent show:

Outstanding photo of the #supermoon & a plane over London (?? by @photogator96) pic.twitter.com/JgNbcZHKdV

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) November 14, 2016

Man stands on a balcony in Madrid as the moon rises in background. #supermoon (GERARD JULIEN/AFP) pic.twitter.com/d9aMUSXD3W

— Doja | ???? (@dojadaoud) November 14, 2016