With the rare Northern Lights that illuminated the Northeast at the beginning of October to the once-in-a-lifetime comet to cap off the month, stargazers had another astronomical phenomenon to keep their eyes peeled for this week.

Completing this month's celestial trifecta is the supermoon known as "Hunter's Moon."

The Hunter's Moon is the third of four consecutive supermoons this year, according to NASA. It follows the Harvest Moon in September and the Sturgeon Moon, which was also a blue moon, in August.

Arriving at perigee (the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit), the supermoon came within just 222,055 miles miles of our planet, making it this year's largest and brightest, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.

The supermoon reached its peak at 7:26 a.m. Thursday morning and was closest to Earth in its orbit at 8:57 p.m. Wednesday night, according to NASA. For those who didn't get a chance to see it at its peak brightness or size, the moon will still appear full through Friday morning.

So, just how "super" is a supermoon? According to NASA, a supermoon can appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a regular full moon. Supermoons also only happen three to four times a year and always appear consecutively.

This month's supermoon was named the "Hunter's Moon" because it was once considered a signal to begin hunting in preparation for the winter, according to the Farmer's Almanac. Other names for the supermoon are the Travel, Dying Grass, Sanguine or Blood Moon, NASA said.