This month’s full moon came the closest to Earth that it has been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory Sunday, November 13, 2016. The full super moon peaked November 14 at 8:52 a.m. EST, but it still looked “super” for about a day after its maximum.

Photographer Chris Cook took a self-portrait with what he called the “super-duper full moon” in the background on Sunday evening in Eastham, Massachusetts. Cook said that as the moon was rising, “it didn’t look any bigger than other moonrises, but once it got higher in the sky later that night it did seem larger than a full moon at apogee,” or the point in the moon’s orbit at which it is farthest from Earth.

The difference in size between the supermoon and other full moons can be difficult to see — it only appears about 14 percent larger than usual. To offer some comparison with other full moons, photographer Bill Hood created the composite image that’s shown above.

In some other photos, the super moon did appear much larger than an ordinary full moon. With other objects serving as points of reference in a supermoon shot, the moon can look huge!