Buck Moon captured across the South

The Buck Moon looks as though it rests upon Old Harry Rocks in this picture taken by BBC Weather Watcher Hang Ross

The Moon looked spectacular over parts of the south on Thursday night.

This particular Moon was a Buck Moon, a type of supermoon - when the Moon is closest to the Earth, and full.

Monthly full Moons have different names, and July's is named to represent the time of year when male deer, known as bucks, begin to grow their new antlers.

As the Buck Moon rose over the south our BBC Weather Watchers in Oxfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were ready to take some beautiful photos.

BBC Weather Watcher Hang Ross also took this picture of the moon from Studland

The moon rises above beach huts in this photo taken from Stanpit Marsh, Dorset

BBC Weather Watcher Brian captured this shot of a speedboat motoring underneath the moon near Mudeford, Christchurch

The Buck Moon above a field of sunflowers in Ferndown, Dorset

BBC Weather Watcher Gary Jacobs captured this striking view of the Buck Moon rising above the Needles on the Isle of Wight

The orange moon above fields in Over Wallop, Hampshire, snapped by BBC Weather Watcher Maz

BBC Weather Watcher Lucie Johnson photographed the Buck Moon peeking above the countryside near Oxford