SOUTH Australians caught a lucky break in the cloudy midnight sky to capture the triple full moon in all its eerie red glory last night.

Despite the less than perfect weather forecast, South Aussies stayed up late or got up early, to snap the once-in-a-lifetime lunar trifecta everywhere from Kidman Park and Huntfield Heights to Cheltenham and beyond.

media_camera How spectacular! The super blue blood moon captured by Samantha Clutton in Cheltenham at 12.41am.

People living in Melbourne’s east had one of the world’s best views of the phenomenon, capturing stunning pics of the copper-red moon, while spectacular pictures of the event are flooding social media from as far away as Tokyo, Bangkok and The Philippines.

Hawaii and Alaska had some of the best seats in the house, along with countries Asia, while western US and Russia also had a decent vantage point.

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But those living in South America, Africa and Europe missed out on the show because the alignment occurs in the middle of the day.

The rare cosmic event allowed the second full moon of the month, known as the blue moon to coincide with a total lunar eclipse, or red moon, while it is at one of its closest points to Earth in its orbit, called a super moon.

media_camera South Aussie Mark Standen was lucky enough to snap the once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event.

The result was a blood moon, coloured a brilliant bright red as the Earth’s shadow passed over it.

In SA, the eclipse began 10.18pm and lasted for about thee hours, with the moon at its reddest from 11.30pm to 12.30am.

media_camera Effie Kiziridis captured this eerie image just before midnight in Kidman Park, South Australia.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Tom Boeck said most of the state, except some areas in the South-East, was covered in cloud last night.

“In the metropolitan sky, the cloud hung in there,” he said.

“There are clearer skies now (but) fortunately the timing wasn’t with us.

“We did have a lovely sunrise this morning (Thursday), with just a little bit of that patchy cloud and blue sky.”

This year, we will be fortunate enough to see two total lunar eclipses, with the next event taking place in late July.