Egypt’s sky-watchers can glimpse the rare combination of an eclipse and a supermoon, or a “blood supermoon” as it is known on social media, in the early hours of Monday morning.

The supermoon lunar eclipse will be visible from Egypt at 02:10 am, according to Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG).

It will climax from 05:10 am until 05:23 am and will end at 07:22 am.

A supermoon occurs when a full moon intersects with the closest approach the Moon makes to Earth, making it appear bigger.

The eclipse will be visible from across the country during that time.

This is the third and last supermoon to be seen from Egypt in 2015 according to the NRIAG.

It has been more than 30 years since a supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse, according to a statement NASA has issued on the phenomenon.

The next lunar eclipse will not take place until 2018, while the next supermoon lunar eclipse will not happen before 2033.

At its closest point, known as its perigee, the moon comes as close as 225,622 miles (363,104 km) from Earth. At its apogee - the most distant point - the moon is 252,088 miles (406,696 km) away.