Tonight the moon will be closer to the Earth than it has been for the past 15 years.

Each month the Moon orbits the Earth in an oval-shaped path, and tonight it will move past it around 28,000km closer than average.

it will also cooincide with a full moon, which astronomers say will make it 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than the average full moon.

It is also likely to look much larger when it is low in the sky, a phenomenon known as the moon illusion.

You could also see the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's best displays of shooting stars, this weekend.

Up to 100 meteors an hour appear to shoot out from the constellation Gemini. The best chance of seeing them is to look away from the Moon.