In a series of images posted on the Twitter account of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, we see four pictures tracking the moon's journey behind the earth.
The pictures of what Artemyev called a 'moonset', come just hours before those in Britain and across the world will be able to view the moon in its biggest and brightest state for 20 years.
There is a lot of excitement about this Sunday's supermoon, scientific name perigee moon, which will see the moon appearing 30% brighter than normal tonight and will appear 14% bigger as it reaches the point of its orbit closest to earth - 221,765 away from earth.
This Sunday's supermoon will be the second, and biggest, of a trio of supermoons to appear in our skies this summer.
On 12 July, a smaller supermoon produced some spectacular images being published from across the world, while on 9 September another supermoon is due to appear, the last until the 29 September 2015.
The supermoon on Sunday night could, however, prove a problem for those who had hoped to see the Perseid meteor shower - one of the most spectacular comet showers you can see from earth.
Scientists have said that the appearance of a bigger and brighter moon could mean that some of the fainter comets might be missed.
Dr Bill Cooke from Nasa's meteoroid environment said: 'Lunar glare wipes out the black, velvety backdrop required to see faint meteors, and sharply reduces counts.'
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