"Super Moon" makes a star appearance in Los Angeles A "super blue blood moon" delivers a celestial show before dawn in Los Angeles. Stargazers across large swaths of the globe -- from the streets of Los Angeles to the slopes of a smoldering Philippine volcano -- had the chance to witness the sight which results when the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up perfectly for a lunar eclipse just as the moon is near its closest orbit point to Earth, making it appear "super" large.