Thanks to a pesky cloud cover, this year’s Supermoon didn’t appear nearly half as luminescent as last year’s. And forget about seeing the concurrent Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which between the blanketed sky and the brightness of the moon reaching its perigee was not observable at all to the naked eye for D.C. area stargazers.

But our reliable band of photographers still managed to gather a few dramatic shots of Saturday’s display when the moon reached its closest point relative to Earth in full bloom.