The very first supermoon of 2025 is expected to cast its celestial glow across Australian nightskies tonight.

The October full moon – also known as harvest moon –offers a resplendent astronomical view of the moon as it sits at its closest position to our planet.

It will be hard to miss if it is not a cloudy evening.

This spectacular harvest moon will rise high in the eastern skies just after sunset on the east coast.

The sun will set today at 7.02pm AEDT.

Astrophysicist Dr Laura Driessen from the School of Physics at Sydney University told 9news.com.au the moon will be so bright, it may be hard to see anything else in the sky.

"The moon is going to be really nice and bright, so everyone should be able to see it so long as the sky is clear. It doesn't matter if you're

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