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2018’s first supermoon shines over Antelope Island

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rises over the Wasatch mountains, as seen from Antelope Island, Monday, January 1, 2018.

  | Jan. 2, 2018, 1:49 a.m.
| Updated: 2:17 a.m.

A supermoon — the second in a trilogy that began Dec. 3 and will end Jan. 31 — shined on the first day of 2018.

Monday’s was the largest of the three, according to NASA, which defines a supermoon as “a moon that is full ... at or near its closest point in its orbit around Earth.”

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Sunsets over the Great Salt Lake, minutes before the largest and brightest supermoon of 2018 rose over the Wasatch mountains, Monday, January 1, 2018.